How do I make autoconf and automake behave?
When you are cross-compiling, autoconf and automake are known to behave badly. This is because a large number of configure scripts (such as the one from openssh) try to actually execute applications that were cross compiled for your target system. This is bad, since of course these won’t run, and this will also prevent your programs from compiling. You need to complain to the authors of these programs and ask them to fix their broken configure scripts.
