diff --git a/release.nix b/release.nix
index 409bf5dc..093d56bd 100644
--- a/release.nix
+++ b/release.nix
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ rec {
 
       configureFlags = [ "--with-docbook-xsl=${docbook_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook" ];
 
+      preHook = ''
+        PATH=$(pwd)/src/script:$(pwd)/src/hydra-eval-jobs:$(pwd)/src/hydra-queue-runner:$PATH
+        PERL5LIB=$(pwd)/src/lib:$PERL5LIB;
+      '';
+
       preConfigure = "autoreconf -vfi";
 
       enableParallelBuilding = true;