Build software on Linux using cross toolchain

Motorola provides a cross compiling toolchain for building Software for their Set Top Box VIP1710. You have to extract it to /usr/local/kreatel and there you have a tree of build tools:

./bin开发者_如何学JAVA
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-addr2line
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-ar
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-as
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-c++
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-c++filt
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-cpp
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-g++
./bin/mipsel-kreatel-linux-gnu-gcc
...
./include
./lib

Now how do I make those configure scripts using my cross-compiling tools instead of my systems' gcc?

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the --host parameter to configure, like this

./configure --host=arm-9tdmi-linux-gnu

where arm-9tdmi-linux-gnu is the identfication of the target system in my case - you can have multiple targets in one crosstool installation btw.