Solved my problem! Here is how, in case it might help anyone else.


The errors containing the word "bitzi" are related to libxml2. So I installed the libxml2-devel package. Looking briefly at the source of main.c and core/bitzi.c, it appears that libxml2 is in fact required, not merely recommended.

For the gtk related error, I reconfigured and told it to link to GTK 1 instead of 2.