A handful of improvements related to cross compiling #173

Job	Run time
build-test (ubuntu-latest, gcc, amd64)	19m 51s
build-test (ubuntu-latest, gcc, c)	24m 33s
build-test (ubuntu-latest, clang, amd64)	20m 38s
build-test (ubuntu-latest, clang, c)	30m 19s
build-test (ubuntu-latest, clang, llvm)	30m 4s
build-test (macos-13, clang, amd64)	45m 17s
build-test (macos-13, clang, c)	47m 55s
build-test (macos-13, clang, llvm)	49m 22s
build-test (macos-14, clang, c)	48m 46s
build-test (macos-14, clang, llvm)	1h 5m 17s
build-test (windows-latest, gcc, amd64)	40m 14s
build-test (windows-latest, gcc, c)	55m 6s
	7h 57m 22s

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