The configure script does not correctly interpret that libxml-&libxml-version; is newer than libxml-1.8.8. This can be solved by building xmlConf.sh with this command: cat > /opt/gnome/lib/xmlConf.sh << EOF XML_LIBDIR="-L/usr/lib" XML_LIBS="-lxml" XML_INCLUDEDIR="-I/usr/include/gnome-xml" MODULE_VERSION=xml-&libxml-version; EOF Install GNOME Print by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --with-zlib=/usr && make && make install