No, you cannot oveeride $PATH globally in Gitlab CI script

.github/workflows/ballfield.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ jobs:
       APP_NAME: ballfield
       # It takes one hour per one architecture to build Boost and ICU libraries, and Github limits CI script duration to 6 hours
       ARCH_LIST: armeabi-v7a arm64-v8a x86 x86_64
-      PATH: ${ANDROID_NDK_LATEST_HOME}:${PATH}
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
@@ -64,10 +63,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build Boost, ICU, and OpenSSL
         # This takes exactly one hour on Gitlab runner
         run: |
+          export PATH=$ANDROID_NDK_LATEST_HOME:$PATH
           ./changeAppSettings.sh
 
       - name: Hyper turbo build script GOOOOOOOOOOOO
         run: |
+          export PATH=$ANDROID_NDK_LATEST_HOME:$PATH
           ./build.sh
 
       - name: Package