"make distcheck" with a cross compiler

[Douglas Phillipson]

I'm new to autoconf, I'll let you know that right up front.  It's a 
wonderful build system and I can see it's going to save me tons of time 
and effort.  I've built my first project with it and it works fine, even 
with my cross compiler to "ARM", but I can't seem to do a "distcheck" of 
course because the build system is x86 and I'm cross compiling to ARM. 
How can I tell the build system NOT to try to run the binary when doing 
distcheck so it will finish and create the nice gzipped tar file of my 
ARM binaries?

Thanks

Doug P