diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/HFuse/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/HFuse/default.nix
index 64943d5e1c1c..67e3a4157b7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/HFuse/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/HFuse/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
 
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -i -e "s@  Extra-Lib-Dirs:         /usr/local/lib@  Extra-Lib-Dirs:         ${fuse}/lib@" HFuse.cabal
+    sed -i -e "s/LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts/LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts, RankNTypes/" System/Fuse.hsc
+    sed -i -e "s/E(Exception/E(catch, Exception, IOException/" System/Fuse.hsc
+    sed -i -e "s/IO(catch,/IO(/" System/Fuse.hsc
+    sed -i -e "s/IO.catch/ E.catch/" System/Fuse.hsc
+    sed -i -e "s/const exitFailure/\\\\(_ :: IOException) -> exitFailure/" System/Fuse.hsc
   '';
 
   meta = {