diff --git a/devel/tclxml/Makefile b/devel/tclxml/Makefile
index 19a4e2967ea5..924b151cebe9 100644
--- a/devel/tclxml/Makefile
+++ b/devel/tclxml/Makefile
@@ -19,12 +19,10 @@ PORTDOCS=	README.xml html.xsl man.macros nroff.xsl tcldoc-1.0.dtd \
 		tcldom.html tcldom.xml tclxml.css tclxml.html tclxml.xml \
 		tclxslt.html tclxslt.xml transform.tcl txt.xsl
 
-USES=		tcl:tea tar:xz
+USES=		pkgconfig tcl:tea tar:xz
 TCL_PKG=	Tclxml${PORTVERSION}
 PLIST_SUB=	PORTVERSION=${PORTVERSION}
-XML_CONFIG?=	${LOCALBASE}/bin/xml2-config
 USE_LDCONFIG=	${PREFIX}/lib/${TCL_PKG}
-CONFIGURE_ARGS+=XML_CONFIG="${XML_CONFIG}"
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 MAKE_ENV+=	TCLLIBPATH=${STAGEDIR}/${PREFIX}/lib
diff --git a/devel/tclxml/distinfo b/devel/tclxml/distinfo
index 93b32ae95e99..18d864c6ace5 100644
--- a/devel/tclxml/distinfo
+++ b/devel/tclxml/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1646755623
 SHA256 (tclxml-3.3.tar.xz) = 10744fdf2c77ab21b07ba5a3b8652a9545f5e5dbfd5addaad4a26d9dd3e76f87
 SIZE (tclxml-3.3.tar.xz) = 498388
diff --git a/devel/tclxml/files/patch-configure b/devel/tclxml/files/patch-configure
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..12582e6d64ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/tclxml/files/patch-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+--- configure.orig	2013-03-30 17:17:07 UTC
++++ configure
+@@ -1332,8 +1332,6 @@ Optional Packages:
+                           (tclConfig.sh)
+   --with-tclinclude       directory containing the public Tcl header files
+   --with-celib=DIR        use Windows/CE support library from DIR
+-  --with-xml2-config      the xml2-config configuration script
+-  --with-xslt-config      the xslt-config configuration script
+   --with-xml-static      statically link the XML libraries
+ 
+ Some influential environment variables:
+@@ -10176,100 +10174,23 @@ fi
+ # Load libxml2 configuration
+ #--------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
+-{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for xml2-config script" >&5
+-echo $ECHO_N "checking for xml2-config script... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
++XML2_VERSION=`pkg-config libxml-2.0 --modversion`
++XML2_PREFIX=`pkg-config libxml-2.0 --variable=prefix`
++XML2_LIBS=`pkg-config libxml-2.0 --libs`
++XML2_CFLAGS=`pkg-config libxml-2.0 --cflags`
+ 
+ 
+-# Check whether --with-xml2-config was given.
+-if test "${with_xml2_config+set}" = set; then
+-  withval=$with_xml2_config; with_xml2_config=${withval}
+-fi
+ 
+ 
+-LIBXML2_CONFIG=
+-if test "x${with_xml2_config}" = "x" ; then
+-    for c in \
+-	/Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Resources/Scripts/xml2-config \
+-	${prefix}/bin/xml2-config \
+-	/usr/bin/xml2-config \
+-	/usr/local/bin/xml2-config
+-    do
+-	if test -x "$c" ; then
+-	    LIBXML2_CONFIG="$c"
+-	    break
+-	fi
+-    done
+-else
+-    LIBXML2_CONFIG="${with_xml2_config}"
+-fi
+-if test "x$LIBXML2_CONFIG" = "x" ; then
+-    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: unable to find xml2-config" >&5
+-echo "$as_me: error: unable to find xml2-config" >&2;}
+-   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+-else
+-    { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: ${LIBXML2_CONFIG}" >&5
+-echo "${ECHO_T}${LIBXML2_CONFIG}" >&6; }
+-    XML2_VERSION=`${LIBXML2_CONFIG} --version`
+-    XML2_PREFIX=`${LIBXML2_CONFIG} --prefix`
+-    XML2_LIBS="`${LIBXML2_CONFIG} --libs`"
+-    XML2_CFLAGS=`${LIBXML2_CONFIG} --cflags`
+-fi
+ 
+-
+-
+-
+-
+ #--------------------------------------------------------------------
+ # Load libxslt configuration
+ #--------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
+-{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for xslt-config script" >&5
+-echo $ECHO_N "checking for xslt-config script... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+-
+-
+-# Check whether --with-xslt-config was given.
+-if test "${with_xslt_config+set}" = set; then
+-  withval=$with_xslt_config; with_xslt_config=${withval}
+-fi
+-
+-
+-LIBXSLT_CONFIG=
+-if test "x${with_xslt_config}" = "x" ; then
+-    if test "x${with_xml2_config}" = "x" ; then
+-	:
+-    else
+-	if test -x "`dirname ${with_xml2_config}`/xslt-config" ; then
+-	    LIBXSLT_CONFIG="`dirname ${with_xml2_config}`/xslt-config"
+-	fi
+-    fi
+-else
+-    LIBXSLT_CONFIG="${with_xslt_config}"
+-fi
+-if test "x${LIBXSLT_CONFIG}" = "x" ; then
+-    for c in \
+-	/Library/Frameworks/libxslt.framework/Resources/Scripts/xslt-config \
+-	${prefix}/bin/xslt-config \
+-	/usr/bin/xslt-config \
+-	/usr/local/bin/xslt-config
+-    do
+-	if test -x "$c" ; then
+-	    LIBXSLT_CONFIG="$c"
+-	    break
+-	fi
+-    done
+-fi
+-if test "x$LIBXSLT_CONFIG" = "x" ; then
+-    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: unable to find xslt-config script" >&5
+-echo "$as_me: error: unable to find xslt-config script" >&2;}
+-   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+-else
+-    { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: ${LIBXSLT_CONFIG}" >&5
+-echo "${ECHO_T}${LIBXSLT_CONFIG}" >&6; }
+-    XSLT_VERSION=`${LIBXSLT_CONFIG} --version`
+-    XSLT_PREFIX=`${LIBXSLT_CONFIG} --prefix`
+-    XSLT_CFLAGS=`${LIBXSLT_CONFIG} --cflags`
+-    XSLT_LIBS="`${LIBXSLT_CONFIG} --libs` -lexslt"
+-fi
++XSLT_VERSION=`pkg-config libxslt --modversion`
++XSLT_PREFIX=`pkg-config libxslt --variable=prefix`
++XSLT_CFLAGS=`pkg-config libxslt --cflags`
++XSLT_LIBS="`pkg-config libxslt --libs` -lexslt"
+ 
+ 
+