I have just build an arm chroot and I imagine others might be
interested on how to do it.
First you need to install qemu. Follow the instructions on
QemuUserEmulation - Debian Wiki. I had some problems
compiling for x86_64, so I just edited qemu's configure to compile for
i686.
Now run debootstrap:
debootstrap --foreign --arch arm sid your_chroot_dir
http://ftp.debian.org/debian
you should now be able to run statically linked program like
your_chroot_dir/lib/ld-linux.so.2
copy qemu to the chroot:
mkdir your_chroot_dir/usr/lib/qemu-binfmt
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static your_chroot_dir/usr/lib/qemu-binfmt/arm
enter the new chroot
chroot your_chroot_dir
finish the install
/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
Cheers,