diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
index 5f236f776852..68743a4dd579 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.8.x.nix
@@ -41,8 +41,30 @@ self: super: {
   unix = null;
   xhtml = null;
 
-  # Use our native version of the Cabal library.
-  cabal-install = (doJailbreak super.cabal-install).overrideScope (self: super: { Cabal = null; });
+  # Use the current git version of cabal-install.
+  cabal-install = overrideCabal (super.cabal-install.overrideScope (self: super: { Cabal = self.Cabal-git; })) (drv: {
+    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "haskell";
+      repo = "cabal";
+      rev = "e98f6c26fa301b49921c2df67934bf9b0a4f3386";
+      sha256 = "15nrkvckq2rw31z7grgbsg5f0gxfc09afsrqdfi4n471k630xd2i";
+    };
+    version = "20190510-git";
+    editedCabalFile = null;
+    postUnpack = "sourceRoot+=/cabal-install";
+    jailbreak = true;
+  });
+  Cabal-git = overrideCabal super.Cabal_2_4_1_0 (drv: {
+    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "haskell";
+      repo = "cabal";
+      rev = "e98f6c26fa301b49921c2df67934bf9b0a4f3386";
+      sha256 = "15nrkvckq2rw31z7grgbsg5f0gxfc09afsrqdfi4n471k630xd2i";
+    };
+    version = "20190510-git";
+    editedCabalFile = null;
+    postUnpack = "sourceRoot+=/Cabal";
+  });
 
   # Ignore overly restrictive upper version bounds.
   async = doJailbreak super.async;