diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index f33c33d2d643b3..e62ab62a4e85af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -146,10 +146,9 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - name: Prepare homebrew environment variables
       run: |
-        echo "LDFLAGS=-L$(brew --prefix tcl-tk)/lib" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        echo "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(brew --prefix openssl@1.1)/lib/pkgconfig:$(brew --prefix tcl-tk)/lib/pkgconfig" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        brew install pkg-config openssl@1.1 xz gdbm tcl-tk
     - name: Configure CPython
-      run: ./configure --with-pydebug --prefix=/opt/python-dev
+      run: CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix gdbm)/include -I$(brew --prefix xz)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix gdbm)/lib -I$(brew --prefix xz)/lib" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix tcl-tk)/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure --with-pydebug --with-openssl=$(brew --prefix openssl@1.1)
     - name: Build CPython
       run: make -j4
     - name: Display build info
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_freeze.py b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_freeze.py
index 2ba36ca208f967..e833a4c26c7f73 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_freeze.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_freeze.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 from test.support import os_helper
 from test.test_tools import imports_under_tool, skip_if_missing
 
+
+support.requires('extralargefile','test requires extra disk spaces and a long time to run')
 skip_if_missing('freeze')
 with imports_under_tool('freeze', 'test'):
     import freeze as helper