We decided to temporarily disable the caching of the cython dependencies during the build, simply because it was causing so much grief. However, this should be re-enabled once someone takes the time to sit down and work out the last kinks. In particular, removing files from the sage tree and rebuilding tends to cause exceptions.
See $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/setup.py for some comments, and to play with this.
Component: build
Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer
Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/4651