diff --git a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
index f5274104d60ac..6e47e10fac7a5 100644
--- a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/Dockerfile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ RUN mkdir /home/user
 COPY host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/shared.sh /tmp/
 
 # Need at least GCC 5.1 to compile LLVM nowadays
-COPY host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/build-gcc.sh /tmp/
+COPY host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/build-gcc.sh /tmp/
 RUN ./build-gcc.sh && yum remove -y gcc gcc-c++
 
 COPY scripts/cmake.sh /tmp/
diff --git a/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/build-gcc.sh b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/build-gcc.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6da3f89220e23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-i686-linux/build-gcc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -ex
+
+source shared.sh
+
+GCC=8.5.0
+
+curl https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-$GCC/gcc-$GCC.tar.xz | xzcat | tar xf -
+cd gcc-$GCC
+
+# FIXME(#49246): Remove the `sed` below.
+#
+# On 2018 March 21st, two Travis builders' cache for Docker are suddenly invalidated. Normally this
+# is fine, because we just need to rebuild the Docker image. However, it reveals a network issue:
+# downloading from `ftp://gcc.gnu.org/` from Travis (using passive mode) often leads to "Connection
+# timed out" error, and even when the download completed, the file is usually corrupted. This causes
+# nothing to be landed that day.
+#
+# We observed that the `gcc-4.8.5.tar.bz2` above can be downloaded successfully, so as a stability
+# improvement we try to download from the HTTPS mirror instead. Turns out this uncovered the third
+# bug: the host `gcc.gnu.org` and `cygwin.com` share the same IP, and the TLS certificate of the
+# latter host is presented to `wget`! Therefore, we choose to download from the insecure HTTP server
+# instead here.
+#
+sed -i'' 's|ftp://gcc\.gnu\.org/|https://gcc.gnu.org/|g' ./contrib/download_prerequisites
+
+./contrib/download_prerequisites
+mkdir ../gcc-build
+cd ../gcc-build
+hide_output ../gcc-$GCC/configure \
+    --prefix=/rustroot \
+    --enable-languages=c,c++ \
+    --disable-gnu-unique-object
+hide_output make -j$(nproc)
+hide_output make install
+ln -s gcc /rustroot/bin/cc
+
+cd ..
+rm -rf gcc-build
+rm -rf gcc-$GCC
+
+# FIXME: clang doesn't find 32-bit libraries in /rustroot/lib,
+# but it does look all the way under /rustroot/lib/[...]/32,
+# so we can link stuff there to help it out.
+ln /rustroot/lib/*.{a,so} -rst /rustroot/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/$GCC/32/