diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool/remove_hardcoded_xml_include.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool/remove_hardcoded_xml_include.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..321a842
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool/remove_hardcoded_xml_include.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/configure.ac	2012-11-06 11:20:54.099021892 -0500
++++ b/configure.ac~	2012-11-06 11:19:57.255023857 -0500
+@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@
+ 
+ fi
+ EX_CHECK_ALL(glib-2.0,   glib_check_version,            glib.h,                 glib-2.0,    2.28.7, ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.28/, "")
+-EX_CHECK_ALL(xml2,       xmlParseFile,                  libxml/parser.h,        libxml-2.0,        2.7.8,  http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html, /usr/include/libxml2)
++EX_CHECK_ALL(xml2,       xmlParseFile,                  libxml/parser.h,        libxml-2.0,        2.7.8,  http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html, "")
+ 
+ if test "$EX_CHECK_ALL_ERR" = "YES"; then
+   AC_MSG_ERROR([Please fix the library issues listed above and try again.])
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.4.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.4.7.bb
index 73141b4..465ef8a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.4.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.4.7.bb
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=44fee82a1d2ed0676cf35478283e0aa0"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpng zlib cairo pango glib-2.0 libxml2"
 
-PR = "r1"
+PR = "r2"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://0001-rrdtool-eradicate-tcl-support.patch \
+           file://remove_hardcoded_xml_include.patch \
           "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ffe369d8921b4dfdeaaf43812100c38f"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "956aaf431c955ba88dd7d98920ade3a8c4bad04adb1f9431377950a813a7af11"