The autotools suite is a framework of scripts and tools to automate the settings and the compilation of a software package virtually on any type of system (in theory).

It is quite complex.

Usually, the first phase of it is to configure the build-system in order to check that everything that you need to compile the software is present on your system and, also, to know where it is (and in what version it is present).

Then, the build-system (based on Makefiles) is configured and ready to go.

You seems to stop at the configure phase because on some error internal to the configure script.

Note that the command you ran, previous to the configure script, are usually for developpers, they are probably needed because of the cross-compilation.

Finally, the error message seems to stop at the detection of the zip library (the script has the choice between the list display, as zip is a standard algorithm, it can just pick one of the lib, but it seems that it is not happy with the script it find).

I cannot tell much more as you did not specified more about your distribution and the context in which you are working.