built emacs --with-xml2 but definition is void: libxml-parse-html-region

[Eric S Fraga]

As subject says, I have built emacs from git with --with-xml2
enabled.  The config log shows that this has been set properly and
library found etc.  However, when I try to read a particular email (from
a blog), I get this error:

mm-shr: Symbol’s function definition is void: libxml-parse-html-region

which is exactly the same error I got when I did not include xml2
explicitly.  I did

make clean && make && make install

and everything seemed to go fine.  But the resulting binary does not
appear to be linked against libxml2 (given output of ldd, on a Linux
system).  Any suggestions as to what I am missing here?

Thanks,
eric

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.3 on Debian buster/sid