Cross Compiling on Gentoo

[hal8000b]

I have Gentoo2005.1 and I am using Intel archietecure.
I have been trying to cross compile mailfilter for my dreambox (sat receiver running linux with powerpc cpu)
I have extracted the source tarball then ran

./configure --target=powerpc
make
(havent run make install as this is for another device)

The binary mailfilter has compiled wihout errors, but I have a feeling it has not been compiled for ppc
archiectecture.

If I run

orac src # pwd
/home/anc/mailfilter-0.6.2/src
orac src # ./mailfilter -V
mailfilter 0.6.2

If this binary was compiled for a powerpc, surely I would get an error when running it on x86 hardware??
I have ftp'd the binary into the dreambox but I get an error

root@dm7020:/usr/bin# ./mailfilter -V
./mailfilter: 1: Syntax error: "&" unexpected (expecting ")")


...and I am pretty sure this is because its still an x86 binary not a powerpc binary

I have not tried to compile on the dreambox hardware as the cpu is a 32bit powerpc running at 250MHz
with only 96M ram
Do I need to install any more tools to cross compile?
Thanks in advance

[Genone]

http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO