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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Maye I have missed it, but why are we using ccache here? That seems a
> bit pointless in an ephemeral instance.

I believe Munro's cfbot tooling is able to save and re-use ccache
across successive instantiations of a build instance.  I've not
looked at this code, but if it can do that there'd be point to it.

			regards, tom lane