diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.0.1.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.0.1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e47ee92630a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.0.1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, bootPkgs, perl, ncurses, libiconv, binutils, coreutils
-, hscolour, patchutils, sphinx
-
-  # If enabled GHC will be build with the GPL-free but slower integer-simple
-  # library instead of the faster but GPLed integer-gmp library.
-, enableIntegerSimple ? false, gmp
-}:
-
-let
-  inherit (bootPkgs) ghc;
-
-  fetchFilteredPatch = args: fetchurl (args // {
-    downloadToTemp = true;
-    postFetch = ''
-      ${patchutils}/bin/filterdiff --clean --strip-match=1 -x 'testsuite/*' "$downloadedFile" > "$out"
-    '';
-  });
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "8.0.1";
-  name = "ghc-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/${name}-src.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1lniqy29djhjkddnailpaqhlqh4ld2mqvb1fxgxw1qqjhz6j1ywh";
-  };
-
-  patches = [
-    ./relocation.patch
-
-    # Fix https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12130
-    (fetchFilteredPatch { url = https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/patch/4d71cc89b4e9648f3fbb29c8fcd25d725616e265; sha256 = "0syaxb4y4s2dc440qmrggb4vagvqqhb55m6mx12rip4i9qhxl8k0"; })
-    (fetchFilteredPatch { url = https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/patch/2f8cd14fe909a377b3e084a4f2ded83a0e6d44dd; sha256 = "06zvlgcf50ab58bw6yw3krn45dsmhg4cmlz4nqff8k4z1f1bj01v"; })
-  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isLinux ./ghc-no-madv-free.patch;
-
-  buildInputs = [ ghc perl hscolour sphinx];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  outputs = [ "out" "doc" ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    sed -i -e 's|-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk||' configure
-  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) ''
-    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -rpath $out/lib/ghc-${version}"
-  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
-    export NIX_LDFLAGS+=" -no_dtrace_dof"
-  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString enableIntegerSimple ''
-    echo "INTEGER_LIBRARY=integer-simple" > mk/build.mk
-  '';
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-gcc=${stdenv.cc}/bin/cc"
-    "--with-curses-includes=${ncurses.dev}/include" "--with-curses-libraries=${ncurses.out}/lib"
-    "--datadir=$doc/share/doc/ghc"
-  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (! enableIntegerSimple) [
-    "--with-gmp-includes=${gmp.dev}/include" "--with-gmp-libraries=${gmp.out}/lib"
-  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin [
-    "--with-iconv-includes=${libiconv}/include" "--with-iconv-libraries=${libiconv}/lib"
-  ];
-
-  # required, because otherwise all symbols from HSffi.o are stripped, and
-  # that in turn causes GHCi to abort
-  stripDebugFlags = [ "-S" ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!stdenv.isDarwin) "--keep-file-symbols";
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    paxmark m $out/lib/${name}/bin/{ghc,haddock}
-
-    # Install the bash completion file.
-    install -D -m 444 utils/completion/ghc.bash $out/share/bash-completion/completions/ghc
-
-    # Patch scripts to include "readelf" and "cat" in $PATH.
-    for i in "$out/bin/"*; do
-      test ! -h $i || continue
-      egrep --quiet '^#!' <(head -n 1 $i) || continue
-      sed -i -e '2i export PATH="$PATH:${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ binutils coreutils ]}"' $i
-    done
-  '';
-
-  passthru = {
-    inherit bootPkgs;
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://haskell.org/ghc;
-    description = "The Glasgow Haskell Compiler";
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ marcweber andres peti ];
-    inherit (ghc.meta) license platforms;
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
index 09e3835712fe..b3bbb0d5b643 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
@@ -66,11 +66,6 @@ in rec {
       bootPkgs = packages.ghc784;
       inherit (bootPkgs) hscolour;
     };
-    ghc801 = callPackage ../development/compilers/ghc/8.0.1.nix rec {
-      bootPkgs = packages.ghc7103;
-      inherit (bootPkgs) hscolour;
-      sphinx = pkgs.python27Packages.sphinx;
-    };
     ghc802 = callPackage ../development/compilers/ghc/8.0.2.nix rec {
       bootPkgs = packages.ghc7103;
       inherit (bootPkgs) hscolour;
@@ -163,10 +158,6 @@ in rec {
       ghc = compiler.ghc7103;
       compilerConfig = callPackage ../development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-7.10.x.nix { };
     };
-    ghc801 = callPackage ../development/haskell-modules {
-      ghc = compiler.ghc801;
-      compilerConfig = callPackage ../development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.0.x.nix { };
-    };
     ghc802 = callPackage ../development/haskell-modules {
       ghc = compiler.ghc802;
       compilerConfig = callPackage ../development/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-8.0.x.nix { };