diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
index fba8729ebbf1..d2f9124ef676 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   isExecutable = true;
   buildDepends = [ Cabal filepath hackageDb HTTP mtl regexPosix ];
   testDepends = [ doctest ];
+  doCheck = self.stdenv.lib.versionOlder "7.6" self.ghc.version;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix";
     description = "Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions";