diff --git a/0001-Fix-compilation-errors-with-libxml2-2.12.patch b/0001-Fix-compilation-errors-with-libxml2-2.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8759b40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Fix-compilation-errors-with-libxml2-2.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From 2cea5a12a35b396800296cb1c3ea08eb00b29760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
+Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:13:46 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix compilation errors with libxml2 2.12
+
+---
+ mapows.c     |    2 +-
+ mapwcs.cpp   |    2 +-
+ mapwcs20.cpp |    2 +-
+ 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+Index: mapserver-8.0.1/mapows.c
+===================================================================
+--- mapserver-8.0.1.orig/mapows.c
++++ mapserver-8.0.1/mapows.c
+@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int msOWSPreParseRequest(cgiReque
+ #endif
+     if (ows_request->document == NULL
+         || (root = xmlDocGetRootElement(ows_request->document)) == NULL) {
+-      xmlErrorPtr error = xmlGetLastError();
++      const xmlError *error = xmlGetLastError();
+       msSetError(MS_OWSERR, "XML parsing error: %s",
+                  "msOWSPreParseRequest()", error->message);
+       return MS_FAILURE;
+Index: mapserver-8.0.1/mapwcs.cpp
+===================================================================
+--- mapserver-8.0.1.orig/mapwcs.cpp
++++ mapserver-8.0.1/mapwcs.cpp
+@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int msWCSParseRequest(cgiRequestO
+     /* parse to DOM-Structure and get root element */
+     if((doc = xmlParseMemory(request->postrequest, strlen(request->postrequest)))
+         == NULL) {
+-      xmlErrorPtr error = xmlGetLastError();
++      const xmlError *error = xmlGetLastError();
+       msSetError(MS_WCSERR, "XML parsing error: %s",
+                  "msWCSParseRequest()", error->message);
+       return MS_FAILURE;
+Index: mapserver-8.0.1/mapwcs20.cpp
+===================================================================
+--- mapserver-8.0.1.orig/mapwcs20.cpp
++++ mapserver-8.0.1/mapwcs20.cpp
+@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ int msWCSParseRequest20(mapObj *map,
+ 
+     /* parse to DOM-Structure and get root element */
+     if(doc == NULL) {
+-      xmlErrorPtr error = xmlGetLastError();
++      const xmlError *error = xmlGetLastError();
+       msSetError(MS_WCSERR, "XML parsing error: %s",
+                  "msWCSParseRequest20()", error->message);
+       return MS_FAILURE;
diff --git a/mapserver.changes b/mapserver.changes
index c6ce702..c7e96e0 100644
--- a/mapserver.changes
+++ b/mapserver.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 19 20:30:15 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add 0001-Fix-compilation-errors-with-libxml2-2.12.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar  1 07:34:53 UTC 2024 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/mapserver.spec b/mapserver.spec
index 58f2588..ebb3666 100644
--- a/mapserver.spec
+++ b/mapserver.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Group:          Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
 URL:            https://www.mapserver.org/
 Source:         https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source9:        %{name}-rpmlintrc
+Patch1:         0001-Fix-compilation-errors-with-libxml2-2.12.patch
 BuildRequires:  FastCGI-devel
 BuildRequires:  apache2-devel
 BuildRequires:  autoconf