clang-tblgen is required to cross-compile clang itself. Unlike before, most of the infrastructure is in place to do this now, and the only thing preventing it is LLVM_BUILD_UTILS, which doesn't apply to Clang.
I thought about changing this to ${project}_BUILD_UTILS and adding a CLANG_BUILD_UTILS option, but there seems little point for just one tool.
Instead, it checks whether clang-tblgen was explicitly requested in LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS, which is good enough for Gentoo and other distributions.