```bitbake
DESCRIPTION = "GNOME XML Parser library"
SECTION = "libs"
PRIORITY = "optional"
LICENSE = "MIT"
PR = "r5"

SRC_URI = "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz"

inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig

EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-python --without-debug --without-legacy --without-catalog --without-docbook --with-c14n"

export LDFLAGS += "-ldl"

do_stage() {
	autotools_stage_all
	install -m 0644 libxml.m4 ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/
        #this is need it by php during its install
        install -m 0755 xml2-config ${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}
}

python populate_packages_prepend () {
	# autonamer would call this libxml2-2, but we don't want that
	if bb.data.getVar('DEBIAN_NAMES', d, 1):
		bb.data.setVar('PKG_libxml2', 'libxml2', d)
}

PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN}-dev ${PN}-utils ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-locale"

FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/*-config"
FILES_${PN}-utils += "${bindir}/*"
```

Create the directory before staging files into it.
user
```bitbake
DESCRIPTION = "GNOME XML Parser library"
SECTION = "libs"
PRIORITY = "optional"
LICENSE = "MIT"
PR = "r5"

SRC_URI = "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz"

inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig

EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-python --without-debug --without-legacy --without-catalog --without-docbook --with-c14n"

export LDFLAGS += "-ldl"

do_stage() {
	autotools_stage_all
	install -d ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/
	install -d ${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}

 	install -m 0644 libxml.m4 ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/
	#this is need it by php during its install
	install -m 0755 xml2-config ${STAGING_BINDIR_CROSS}
}

python populate_packages_prepend () {
	# autonamer would call this libxml2-2, but we don't want that
	if bb.data.getVar('DEBIAN_NAMES', d, 1):
		bb.data.setVar('PKG_libxml2', 'libxml2', d)
}

PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN}-dev ${PN}-utils ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-locale"

FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/*-config"
FILES_${PN}-utils += "${bindir}/*"
```
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