test ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-compatibility-versions failing w/ could not find Kubernetes source under current working directory or GOPATH

[aaron-prindle]

What happened:
Newly added periodic test - ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-compatibility-versions is failing (related PR: #33534)

What you expected to happen:
I expected the test to pass. This is the first submission for the test and it seems there is some missing initialization

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
I don't believe there is a simple way to reproduce running a prow job locally. You can trigger the prow test directly or look at the prow logs to see the failing job

Please provide links to example occurrences, if any:
https://prow.k8s.io/view/gs/kubernetes-jenkins/logs/ci-kubernetes-e2e-kind-compatibility-versions/1843359973241786368

exported KUBECONFIG=/root/.kube/kind-test-config
+ kind version
kind v0.25.0-alpha+b404897ff06f98 go1.22.6 linux/amd64
+ build
+ kind build node-image -v 1
ERROR: error building node image: error finding kuberoot: could not find Kubernetes source under current working directory or GOPATH=/home/prow/go

[aaron-prindle]

/assign
/sig api-machinery

[BenTheElder]

we have two good options: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pull/33534/files#r1790765481

the least work is adding kubernetes to the extra refs

slightly more work but cheaper/faster would be reworking the script to use something like KUBE_LATEST_VERSION="$(curl -L 'https://dl.k8s.io/ci/latest')"; kind build node-image 'https://dl.k8s.io/ci/'"${KUBE_LATEST_VERSION}"; # fetch the e2e.test etc from releases in the script