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+task:
+  name: "FreeBsd 12.0 amd64  [GOAL: install]  [no depends, only system libs]"
+  freebsd_instance:
+    image: freebsd-12-0-release-amd64
+  ccache_cache:
+    folder: "/tmp/ccache_dir"
+  env:
+    MAKEJOBS: "-j3"
+    CONFIGURE_OPTS: "--disable-dependency-tracking"
+    GOAL: "install"
+    CCACHE_SIZE: "200M"
+    CCACHE_COMPRESS: 1
+    CCACHE_DIR: "/tmp/ccache_dir"
+  install_script:
+    - pkg install -y autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool openssl pkgconf python3 ccache
+    - ./contrib/install_db4.sh $(pwd)
+    - ccache --max-size=${CCACHE_SIZE}
+  configure_script:
+    - ./autogen.sh
+    - ./configure ${CONFIGURE_OPTS} BDB_LIBS="-L$(pwd)/db4/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" BDB_CFLAGS="-I$(pwd)/db4/include" || ( cat config.log && false)
+  make_script:
+    - gmake ${MAKEJOBS} ${GOAL} || ( echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && gmake ${GOAL} V=1 ; false )
+  check_script:
+    - gmake check ${MAKEJOBS} VERBOSE=1
+  functional_test_script:
+    - ./test/functional/test_runner.py --ci --combinedlogslen=1000 --quiet --failfast