From b6dba6c6bec75e59220194615b390ff3b89370c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Kowalski <thom.kowa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:12:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-145349: Do not add ccache to PATH

---
 .github/workflows/build.yml           | 14 --------------
 .github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh   |  1 -
 .github/workflows/reusable-san.yml    |  3 ---
 .github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml |  3 ---
 .github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml   |  2 --
 5 files changed, 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index d777f35ac208fd..91235c0309d29f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ jobs:
         run: echo "IMAGE_OS_VERSION=${ImageOS}-${ImageVersion}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: sudo ./.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
-      - name: Add ccache to PATH
-        run: echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
       - name: Configure CPython
         run: |
           # Build Python with the libpython dynamic library
@@ -299,9 +297,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install OpenSSL
       if: steps.cache-openssl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
       run: python3 Tools/ssl/multissltests.py --steps=library --base-directory "$MULTISSL_DIR" --openssl "$OPENSSL_VER" --system Linux
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Configure CPython
       run: ./configure CFLAGS="-fdiagnostics-format=json" --config-cache --enable-slower-safety --with-pydebug --with-openssl="$OPENSSL_DIR"
     - name: Build CPython
@@ -356,9 +351,6 @@ jobs:
           --base-directory "$MULTISSL_DIR" \
           --awslc ${{ matrix.awslc_ver }} \
           --system Linux
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Configure CPython
       run: |
         ./configure CFLAGS="-fdiagnostics-format=json" \
@@ -459,9 +451,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install OpenSSL
       if: steps.cache-openssl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
       run: python3 Tools/ssl/multissltests.py --steps=library --base-directory "$MULTISSL_DIR" --openssl "$OPENSSL_VER" --system Linux
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Setup directory envs for out-of-tree builds
       run: |
         echo "CPYTHON_RO_SRCDIR=$(realpath -m "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}"/../cpython-ro-srcdir)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
@@ -577,9 +566,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install OpenSSL
       if: steps.cache-openssl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
       run: python3 Tools/ssl/multissltests.py --steps=library --base-directory "$MULTISSL_DIR" --openssl "$OPENSSL_VER" --system Linux
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Configure CPython
       run: ./configure --config-cache --with-address-sanitizer --without-pymalloc --with-openssl="$OPENSSL_DIR"
     - name: Build CPython
diff --git a/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh b/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
index 0b64367e6c4562..a2fac7c66db1d9 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ apt-get update
 apt-get -yq install \
     build-essential \
     pkg-config \
-    ccache \
     cmake \
     gdb \
     lcov \
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-san.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-san.yml
index 49876cf49260d9..b70f9b4b0d6259 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-san.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-san.yml
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ jobs:
       env:
         SANITIZER: ${{ inputs.sanitizer }}
         SAN_LOG_OPTION: log_path=${{ github.workspace }}/san_log
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Configure CPython
       run: >-
         ./configure
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml
index 4bb4f535acb360..9032ac016e4810 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-ubuntu.yml
@@ -63,9 +63,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install OpenSSL
       if: steps.cache-openssl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
       run: python3 Tools/ssl/multissltests.py --steps=library --base-directory "$MULTISSL_DIR" --openssl "$OPENSSL_VER" --system Linux
-    - name: Add ccache to PATH
-      run: |
-        echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: Setup directory envs for out-of-tree builds
       run: |
         echo "CPYTHON_RO_SRCDIR=$(realpath -m "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}"/../cpython-ro-srcdir)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml
index 68c5ef14cfe212..fb62f0d5164e07 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-wasi.yml
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ jobs:
         mkdir "${WASI_SDK_PATH}" && \
         curl -s -S --location "https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/download/wasi-sdk-${WASI_SDK_VERSION}/wasi-sdk-${WASI_SDK_VERSION}.0-arm64-linux.tar.gz" | \
         tar --strip-components 1 --directory "${WASI_SDK_PATH}" --extract --gunzip
-    - name: "Add ccache to PATH"
-      run: echo "PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
     - name: "Install Python"
       uses: actions/setup-python@v6
       with: