Answering myself:
> > > The important psrt being:
> > > ---
> > > grep: /usr/lib/libxml2.la: No such file or directory
> > > ---
> >
> > maybe you can solve this by compiling libxml2 from source - the
> > .la file should be built, then (I think).
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. However I would prefer not to, as I want
> to keep the system "as is" from fc4 (with upgrades). I will wait
> some time and see if there are some other suggestions.

I compiled libxml2 but didn't install it. Only took the libxml2.la 
file and copied it to /usr/lib (after modifying it slightly to adjust 
for revision and path). Now koffice compiles just fine.

Thanks again for your suggestion.

Regards
Jan
-- 
Jan Simonson
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