You're not missing anything. I once managed to create a cross-build system "wrong way". (OBS made this error both possible and easy.) I tried to build some pre

You're not missing anything. I once managed to create a cross-build system "wrong way". (OBS made this error both possible and easy.) I tried to build some pretty heavy x86 software (QtWebKit) and ended up creating a config that used a cluster of panda boards to run qemus in x86 emulation mode. To my chagrin, I didn't realise the error until I was wondering, after ~5h, why my build was still not finished.