PHP configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

Are you attempting to compile PHP on Linux and running into, “configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.”

It’s easy to fix, simply install the libxml2-development package by issuing the following command on your appropriate Linux distribution.

 Fixing on Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora via Yum
 yum install libxml2-devel

Fixing on Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint via apt-get
 apt-get install libxml2-dev