the real innovator here was FreeBSD, even before Linux.
In the mid 90s, a FreeBSD user could build their entire operating system and apps with code and tools managed by FreeBSD.
Eventually systems like Debian improved on this, but FreeBSD was first.
I feel like pretty much every distro I used n thr 90s allowed for ef hosting and building. Even early redhat had the ability to build every package from arc rpm.
Unless i am misunderstanding what you mean by build.