Vorbis dev - Sep 2004 - Builf libao for arm on x86

I am having trouble configuring libao for cross compiling for an arm 
target on an x86 host. I try
./confgure --target=arm
but, get the following error
configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling
and it ends without finishing.

How can I configure for arm development on an x86 system?

tj