Well, this thread is nearly one year old and I ran into the same problem today, while trying to build the current release.
Code
INSTALL util-macros (target)
mkfontscale: ~/99-Projects/libreelec/extra_dvb/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Odroid_C2.aarch64-devel/toolchain/lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16)
make: *** [Makefile:12: image] Error 1
Are there any plans to fix this problem?