No point in creating example or util executables when cross-compiling.
(Especially as doing it anyway wouldn't work without tweaks to have it find
libxml2 and libm, at least for Android.)

--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
 DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = --enable-gtk-doc
 
 # Subdirectories to build/install/distribute etc.
-SUBDIRS = $(subdirs) src examples utils demos docs data scripts
+SUBDIRS = $(subdirs) src docs data scripts
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 ChangeLog.1 ChangeLog.2 ChangeLog.3 ChangeLog.4 \
 ChangeLog.5 ChangeLog.6 ChangeLog.7 ChangeLog.8 ChangeLog.9 ChangeLog.10 \
