diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 085a2939284..bea1144aa2a 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ env:  # Global defaults
   MAKEJOBS: "-j10"
   TEST_RUNNER_PORT_MIN: "14000"  # Must be larger than 12321, which is used for the http cache. See https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/writing-tasks/#http-cache
   CI_FAILFAST_TEST_LEAVE_DANGLING: "1"  # Cirrus CI does not care about dangling processes and setting this variable avoids killing the CI script itself on error
-  CCACHE_DIR: "/tmp/ccache_dir"
 
 # A self-hosted machine(s) can be used via Cirrus CI. It can be configured with
 # multiple users to run tasks in parallel. No sudo permission is required.
diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env.sh
index fb0099e4dcc..d488a860248 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export CCACHE_TEMPDIR=${CCACHE_TEMPDIR:-/tmp/.ccache-temp}
 export CCACHE_COMPRESS=${CCACHE_COMPRESS:-1}
 # The cache dir.
 # This folder exists only on the ci guest, and on the ci host as a volume.
-export CCACHE_DIR=${CCACHE_DIR:-$BASE_SCRATCH_DIR/.ccache}
+export CCACHE_DIR="${CCACHE_DIR:-$BASE_SCRATCH_DIR/ccache}"
 # Folder where the build result is put (bin and lib).
 export BASE_OUTDIR=${BASE_OUTDIR:-$BASE_SCRATCH_DIR/out}
 # The folder for previous release binaries.