[Evolution] configure does not find libxml?

[Ujwal Sathyam <ujwal netbrowser com>]

Hi,

I am trying to build evolution-0.3.1, and the configure script seems 
to find all the important libraries until it gets to some xml check. 
There I get the error:

checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... no
configure: error: Could not link sample program

I know I have both libxml-1.8.9-1 and libxml-devel-1.8.9-1 installed. 
I even tried downloading, building, and installing libxml-1.8.7, but 
no luck there.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ujwal