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It used to be common, did a lot of work on aarch64 as it was basically coming up, a lot of work was ad-hoc using codesourcery and later rolling my own tool chain for cross compiles.
Once the platform became semi-stable we tried to build everything locally, libraries are the real nightmare, you just can't deal with them long term.
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