Automake problem buildng "joe" in uClibc buildroot

[Kevin P. Fleming]

I'm trying to build the JOE editor (version 2.9.8) in a uClibc 
buildroot. My buildroot has successfully built all the other stuff I 
need, including some stuff I've added (device-mapper, LVM2, xfsprogs, 
etc), that use GNU autotools for their build systems.

This packages uses a normal autotools build system; the configure script 
and Makefile don't look to be out of the ordinary at all. However, when 
it installs, automake is (for some reason) prefixing the binary names 
with "i386-linux", which I presume is happening because it thinks this 
is a cross-compile (which it is) and the binary being created is for the 
host (which it is not).

Has anyone else seen this behavior?