diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
index 9609020..b545735 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes/ccache.bbclass
@@ -1,5 +1,37 @@
-CCACHE = "${@bb.utils.which(d.getVar('PATH'), 'ccache') and 'ccache '}"
-export CCACHE_DIR ?= "${TMPDIR}/ccache/${MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS}/${PN}"
+#
+# Usage:
+# - Enable ccache
+#   Add the following line to a conffile such as conf/local.conf:
+#   INHERIT += "ccache"
+#
+# - Disable ccache for a recipe
+#   Add the following line to the recipe if it can't be built with ccache:
+#   CCACHE_DISABLE = '1'
+#
+# - Share ccache files between different builds
+#   Set CCACHE_TOP_DIR to a shared dir
+#   CCACHE_TOP_DIR = /path/to/shared_ccache/
+#
+# - TO debug ccahe
+#   export CCACHE_DEBUG = "1"
+#   export CCACHE_LOGFILE = "${CCACHE_DIR}/logfile.log"
+#   And also set PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 1" to get make the log in order
+#
+
+# Set it to a shared location for different builds, so that cache files can
+# be shared between different builds.
+CCACHE_TOP_DIR ?= "${TMPDIR}/ccache"
+
+# ccahe removes CCACHE_BASEDIR from file path, so that hashes will be the same
+# in different builds.
+export CCACHE_BASEDIR ?= "${TMPDIR}"
+
+# Used for sharing cache files after compiler is rebuilt
+export CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK ?= "%compiler% -dumpspecs"
+
+export CCACHE_CONFIGPATH ?= "${COREBASE}/meta/conf/ccache.conf"
+
+export CCACHE_DIR ?= "${CCACHE_TOP_DIR}/${MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS}/${PN}"
 
 # We need to stop ccache considering the current directory or the
 # debug-prefix-map target directory to be significant when calculating
@@ -7,5 +39,28 @@
 # ${PV} or ${PR} change.
 export CCACHE_NOHASHDIR ?= "1"
 
-DEPENDS_append_class-target = " ccache-native"
-DEPENDS[vardepvalueexclude] = " ccache-native"
+python() {
+    """
+    Enable ccache for the recipe
+    """
+    pn = d.getVar('PN')
+    # quilt-native doesn't need ccache since no c files
+    if not (pn in ('ccache-native', 'quilt-native') or
+            bb.utils.to_boolean(d.getVar('CCACHE_DISABLE'))):
+        d.appendVar('DEPENDS', ' ccache-native')
+        d.setVar('CCACHE', 'ccache ')
+}
+
+addtask cleanccache after do_clean
+python do_cleanccache() {
+    import shutil
+
+    ccache_dir = d.getVar('CCACHE_DIR')
+    if os.path.exists(ccache_dir):
+        bb.note("Removing %s" % ccache_dir)
+        shutil.rmtree(ccache_dir)
+    else:
+        bb.note("%s doesn't exist" % ccache_dir)
+}
+addtask cleanall after do_cleanccache
+do_cleanccache[nostamp] = "1"