diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
index 21cebedefe46..24375cb277a9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     binary dataAccessor deepseq distributedStatic hashable mtl
     networkTransport random rank1dynamic stm syb time transformers
   ];
+  jailbreak = true;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://haskell-distributed.github.com/";
     description = "Cloud Haskell: Erlang-style concurrency in Haskell";