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+From 2a06be6a10a0718f8a3d8e00c317f5042c99a467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:55:53 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with libxml2 2.12
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+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+libxml 2.12.0 restructured headers so that xmlFree is no longer in the scope.
+Let’s add the correct include.
+---
+ src/af/util/xp/ut_stringbuf.cpp | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/af/util/xp/ut_stringbuf.cpp b/src/af/util/xp/ut_stringbuf.cpp
+index f1e8d9078..88488ad67 100644
+--- src/af/util/xp/ut_stringbuf.cpp
++++ src/af/util/xp/ut_stringbuf.cpp
+@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
+ #include <algorithm>
+ 
+ #include <libxml/uri.h>
++#include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
+ 
+ #include <glib.h>
+ 
+-- 
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+