Instructions at http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html should probably recommending installing libxml2 and libxml2-devel. They were required to get through building mesa on my system.
Michael, Can you tell me what mesa is and I also need to know if libxm12 and libxm12-devel are required for both the package sets that are shown in the manuals. One package set is for Debian-based hosts and one is for RPM-based hosts. Do I add each of these libxm12 packages to both lists?
I read the error message incorrectly. The quick start guide isn't missing libxml2 the error had to do with the bitbake recipe. In the recipe libxml2 needs to be available before mesa is built. Or else maybe mesa could be built without docs. I think this can be closed as misreported and the problem I found needs to be addressed in a different ticket.
Michael says this is not a but and was mis-reported. I have marked it as "RESOLVED".
Should be "NOTABUG"
Oh - didn't realize I could do that :)
Just changed status to Verified but still NOTABUG.