Gentoo's sandbox does not whitelist this path by default yet.

(4.1 update:
https://github.com/ccache/ccache/issues/984
https://github.com/ccache/ccache/issues/1044
https://github.com/ccache/ccache/commit/a0edd4294f6a5a2d3f0c7b01273736f975f250e1
https://github.com/ccache/ccache/commit/ef2e922f9642f943199138447b29ec53fa63ea68
... gets us closer, but not there yet.)

And see https://github.com/ccache/ccache/discussions/1086#discussioncomment-3327565.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/837362 for 4.6 issue.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/883799 and https://bugs.gentoo.org/887019 fo 4.8 issue.
--- a/src/Config.cpp
+++ b/src/Config.cpp
@@ -1194,17 +1194,5 @@ Config::check_key_tables_consistency()
 std::string
 Config::default_temporary_dir() const
 {
-  static const std::string run_user_tmp_dir = [] {
-#ifndef _WIN32
-    const char* const xdg_runtime_dir = getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR");
-    if (xdg_runtime_dir && DirEntry(xdg_runtime_dir).is_directory()) {
-      auto dir = FMT("{}/ccache-tmp", xdg_runtime_dir);
-      if (fs::create_directories(dir) && access(dir.c_str(), W_OK) == 0) {
-        return dir;
-      }
-    }
-#endif
-    return std::string();
-  }();
-  return !run_user_tmp_dir.empty() ? run_user_tmp_dir : m_cache_dir + "/tmp";
+  return m_cache_dir + "/tmp";
 }