well I compile stuff, i just don't have much experience with ARM specifics. What's the thought? take out the intel stuff without replacing it with something arm specific then? Seems easy enough.
I'll look into that ribuck

**edit**
took out all the amd/intel stuff and replaced it with nothing to see if that will work. seems I need to actually compile some of boost.
g++ -c -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -D__WXGTK__ -DNOPCH -DUSE_SSL -I"/usr/local/include/wx-2.9" -I"/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-debug-static-2.9" -O3 -o obj/sha256.o sha256.cpp
g++ -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -D__WXGTK__ -DNOPCH -DUSE_SSL -I"/usr/local/include/wx-2.9" -I"/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-debug-static-2.9" -o bitcoind obj/nogui/util.o obj/nogui/script.o obj/nogui/db.o obj/nogui/net.o obj/nogui/irc.o obj/nogui/main.o obj/nogui/rpc.o obj/nogui/init.o cryptopp/obj/sha.o cryptopp/obj/cpu.o obj/sha256.o -Wl,-Bstatic -l boost_system-mt -l boost_filesystem-mt -l boost_program_options-mt -l boost_thread-mt -l db_cxx -l ssl -l crypto -Wl,-Bdynamic -l gthread-2.0 -l z -l dl
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/usr/bin/ld: cryptopp/obj/sha.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
cryptopp/obj/sha.o: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bitcoind] Error 1