diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/graphviz/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/graphviz/default.nix
index 9d370993a22c..77245ec8c91b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/graphviz/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/graphviz/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     colour dlist fgl filepath polyparse QuickCheck temporary text
     transformers wlPprintText
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://projects.haskell.org/graphviz/";
     description = "Bindings to Graphviz for graph visualisation";