After Autoconf the errors are as follows. The Makefile is not honouring / passing the builddir through. This is a build being done in a subdirectory.
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-devel/build/alsa-utils-1.2.13/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/config.status', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-devel/build/alsa-utils-1.2.13/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/po'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:471: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-devel/build/alsa-utils-1.2.13/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu'
After Autoconf the errors are as follows. The Makefile is not honouring / passing the builddir through. This is a build being done in a subdirectory.
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.24])fixes the issue