diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
index 0427a937f840..d23a5ef0228d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/distributed-process/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     testFrameworkHunit
   ];
   noHaddock = true;
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process";
     description = "Cloud Haskell: Erlang-style concurrency in Haskell";