diff --git a/package/hiredis/hiredis.mk b/package/hiredis/hiredis.mk
index f79b6c757a..a2f7627b58 100644
--- a/package/hiredis/hiredis.mk
+++ b/package/hiredis/hiredis.mk
@@ -11,9 +11,14 @@ HIREDIS_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 HIREDIS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 HIREDIS_CPE_ID_VENDOR = redislabs
 HIREDIS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+
+HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS = -DDISABLE_TESTS=ON
+HOST_HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS = -DDISABLE_TESTS=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OFF
+
 # Set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release or the libraries will be suffixed with "d"
-# resulting in a build failure with collectd
-HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS = -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DDISABLE_TESTS=ON
+# resulting in build failures when linking.
+HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS += -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+HOST_HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS += -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),yy)
 HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS += -DENABLE_SSL=ON
@@ -22,4 +27,11 @@ else
 HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS += -DENABLE_SSL=OFF
 endif
 
+# We may be a ccache dependency, so we can't use ccache; reset the
+# options set by the cmake infra.
+HOST_HIREDIS_CONF_OPTS += \
+	-UCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER \
+	-UCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER
+
 $(eval $(cmake-package))
+$(eval $(host-cmake-package))