C and Perl bindings seems to be working OK.
And Now for Something Completely Different:

Seems like "expat" dependency was missing from my "rpmio" library:

ImportError:  
dlopen(/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/site-packages/rpm/_rpmmodule.so, 2): Symbol not found:  
_XML_ErrorString
   Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/librpmio-5.0.dylib
   Expected in: flat namespace

For some reason, indirect dependencies with autotools are not working  
with "secondary" dependencies ? It is able to add -lneon, but misses on  
-lexpat (which is required by libneon.a). The -L directory is added OK  
for expat,  so it is the -lexpat that is missing. The libneon.la file  
does include libexpat.la and the libexpat.la file does contain  
libexpat.a (only), but this never makes it to $CC. Trying to find out  
where it is getting lost, but in the meantime I need to rebuild rpmio  
library with an explit extra -lexpat added... (hope that the deadstrip  
works) Somehow I think this might be related to the "shameless  
workaround" having to add -lssl and -lcrypto for neon ?

--anders

PS. It works OK when linking dynamically, as from e.g. MacPorts