Cross compiling Openssh/Openssl for ARM

[raphaelb]

Could anyone help me solve this cross compilation mystery?

I'm compiling openssh (& openssl) for ARM using a toolchain I built with crossdev.
I built the full stage 4 toolchain, with glibc and everything.

When I run a

ROOT=/opt/cross CHOST=arm-unknown-linux-gnu emerge openssh

it compiles the first few deps without a problem, but when it gets to openssl, I get the following:

asm/mx86-elf.s: Assembler messages:
asm/mx86-elf.s:11: Error: alignment too large: 15 assumed
asm/mx86-elf.s:13: Error: unrecognized symbol type ""
asm/mx86-elf.s:15: Error: bad instruction `pushl %esi'
asm/mx86-elf.s:16: Error: bad instruction `pushl %edi'
asm/mx86-elf.s:17: Error: bad instruction `movl 12(%esp),%edi'
asm/mx86-elf.s:18: Error: bad instruction `movl 16(%esp),%esi'
asm/mx86-elf.s:19: Error: bad instruction `movl 20(%esp),%ecx'

Which looks to continue on down the line for a long time, in similar state as this, ending with:

make[2]: *** [asm/mx86-elf.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openssl-0.9.7e-r2/work/openssl-0.9.7e/crypto/md5'
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openssl-0.9.7e-r2/work/openssl-0.9.7e/crypto'
make: *** [sub_all] Error 1

Something is amiss, though I don't know how to fix it.
It seems to me that it is actually using the x86 assembler, hence the mx86-elf.o

I looked further up in the configuration, and found this, though I don't know how to change it:

Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2
Configuring for linux-elf
Configuring for linux-elf
IsWindows=0
CC =gcc
CFLAG =-fPIC -DZLIB_SHARED -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -pipe -Wa,--noexecstack -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM
EX_LIBS =-ldl
BN_ASM =asm/bn86-elf.o asm/co86-elf.o
DES_ENC =asm/dx86-elf.o asm/yx86-elf.o
BF_ENC =asm/bx86-elf.o
CAST_ENC =c_enc.o
RC4_ENC =asm/rx86-elf.o
RC5_ENC =asm/r586-elf.o
MD5_OBJ_ASM =asm/mx86-elf.o
SHA1_OBJ_ASM =asm/sx86-elf.o
RMD160_OBJ_ASM=asm/rm86-elf.o
<SNIP>

Any suggestions on what to do now?
Thanks so much for your help!
-Raphael

[raphaelb]

Now I think that openssl is doing its own weird configuration thing, and setting itself up with the wrong assembler...

Can anyone tell me what/how to have emerge override the default config for openssl so it uses arm-unknown-linux-gnu-as instead?

I allready tried USE="arm" and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm"
am I missing anything?
Thanks,
Raphael