HOST_CCACHE_CONF_ENV = \
CC="$(HOSTCC_NOCCACHE)"
+# Force ccache to use its internal zlib. The problem is that without
+# this, ccache would link against the zlib of the build system, but we
+# might build and install a different version of zlib in $(O)/host
+# afterwards, which ccache will pick up. This might break if there is
+# a version mismatch. A solution would be to add host-zlib has a
+# dependency of ccache, but it would require tuning the zlib .mk file
+# to use HOSTCC_NOCCACHE as the compiler. Instead, we take the easy
+# path: tell ccache to use its internal copy of zlib, so that ccache
+# has zero dependency besides the C library.
+HOST_CCACHE_CONF_OPT += ccache_cv_zlib_1_2_3=no
+
# We directly hardcode the cache location into the binary, as it is
# much easier to handle than passing an environment variable.
define HOST_CCACHE_FIX_CCACHE_DIR