diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
index a1938de0ab3..9be62568373 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-nix.nix
@@ -782,4 +782,14 @@ self: super: builtins.intersectAttrs super {
     testToolDepends = [ pkgs.git pkgs.mercurial ];
   });
 
+  haskell-language-server = overrideCabal super.haskell-language-server (drv: {
+    postInstall = let
+      inherit (pkgs.lib) concatStringsSep take splitString;
+      ghc_version = self.ghc.version;
+      ghc_major_version = concatStringsSep "." (take 2 (splitString "." ghc_version));
+    in ''
+        ln -s $out/bin/haskell-language-server $out/bin/haskell-language-server-${ghc_version}
+        ln -s $out/bin/haskell-language-server $out/bin/haskell-language-server-${ghc_major_version}
+       '';
+  });
 }