compiling synamic arm code

Question

I'm building some common gnu/linux console utilities for my Android phone but so far I have only been able to build them statically, with quite a size penalty. Can someone walk me through the steps for synamic compiles using shared libraries?

Here's the script(s) I'm using for configuration:

./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi \
CC="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc" \
CROSS_COMPILE="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-" \
CFLAGS=" -static $_XXFLAGS" \

for shared:

./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi \
CC="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc" \
CROSS_COMPILE="arm-none-linux-gnueabi-" \
--enable-shared=yes --enable-static=no

Do I need to make the libs on my android phone avaiable to my cross-compiler? Google isn't helping me here.