diff --git a/tests/functional/structured-attrs.sh b/tests/functional/structured-attrs.sh
index a9077e9388a..321cb610799 100755
--- a/tests/functional/structured-attrs.sh
+++ b/tests/functional/structured-attrs.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ nix derivation show "$hacky" | jq --exit-status '.derivations."'"$(basename "$ha
 
 # Test warning for non-object exportReferencesGraph in structured attrs
 # shellcheck disable=SC2016
-expectStderr 0 nix-build --expr '
+expectStderr 0 nix-build --no-out-link --expr '
   with import ./config.nix;
   mkDerivation {
     name = "export-graph-non-object";