diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
index 65c67dd..d0052cd 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/gobject-introspection.bbclass
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
     cp ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/${datadir}/aclocal/introspection.m4 ${S}/m4
 }
 
+do_compile:prepend() {
+    # This prevents g-ir-scanner from writing cache data to $HOME
+    export GI_SCANNER_DISABLE_CACHE=1
+}
+
 # .typelib files are needed at runtime and so they go to the main package (so
 # they'll be together with libraries they support).
 FILES:${PN}:append = " ${libdir}/girepository-*/*.typelib"