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@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ outputs and perform the remote build. To use it, you should set
<envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl</filename>.
You should also define a list of available build machines and point
-the environment variable <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> to it. An
+the environment variable <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> to it (the
+path has to be absolute, otherwise nix will fail to distribute the build). An
example configuration is shown in <xref linkend='ex-remote-systems'
/>. Each line in the file specifies a machine, with the following
bits of information: