diff --git a/python-lxml.changes b/python-lxml.changes
index eb50871..5f42cd1 100644
--- a/python-lxml.changes
+++ b/python-lxml.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 15 18:40:33 UTC 2012 - saschpe@suse.de
+
+- BuildRequire libxml2-devel instead of pkconfi() to allow building
+  on SLE_11_SP2
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun  4 20:55:38 UTC 2012 - os-dev@jacraig.com
 
diff --git a/python-lxml.spec b/python-lxml.spec
index 19700f9..da8302c 100644
--- a/python-lxml.spec
+++ b/python-lxml.spec
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            http://lxml.de/
 Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://lxml.de/lxmldoc-%{version}.pdf
+BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
 BuildRequires:  python-Cython
 BuildRequires:  python-devel
-BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libxml-2.0)
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}