cross-building with qemu-i386/aarch64

[Frans de Boer]

LS,

I have a puzzle for which I seek some assistance for the following case:

I have build a cross-compiler for - say - the i586 architecture, 
including glibc and some others. The next step would be to transfer this 
together with other sources to the target machine and finish the 
building of a bootable system.
Now, suppose I have no bootable target system (yet) and want to build 
everything using qemu-i386 to be transferred later.

However when I start:
  qemu-i386 /path to i386 sbin/chroot "<path to new root> /usr/bin/env 
-i ....... /usr/bin/bash --login
I end up that the chroot program complains that it can't find 
/lib/libc.so.6, which actually does exist on <path to new 
root>/lib/libc.so.6.

Am I missing something and/or is there a solution that I am not aware of 
as yet.

--- Frans.