diff --git a/main/libxml2/APKBUILD b/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
index 34c54ed61d2..f7e41288569 100644
--- a/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 pkgname=libxml2
 pkgver=2.7.8
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="XML parsing library, version 2"
 url="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 arch="all"
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ build() {
 package() {
 	cd "$_builddir"
 	make -j1 DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+	rm "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.la
 	install -Dm644 COPYING "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING
 }