diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 441410ce138..95b9009d262 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1602,4 +1602,19 @@ self: super: {
     ];
   });
 
+  # cabal-install switched to build type simple in 3.2.0.0
+  # as a result, the cabal(1) man page is no longer installed
+  # automatically. Instead we need to use the `cabal man`
+  # command which generates the man page on the fly and
+  # install it to $out/share/man/man1 ourselves in this
+  # override.
+  # The commit that introduced this change:
+  # https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/91ac075930c87712eeada4305727a4fa651726e7
+  cabal-install = overrideCabal super.cabal-install (old: {
+    postInstall = old.postInstall + ''
+      mkdir -p "$out/share/man/man1"
+      "$out/bin/cabal" man --raw > "$out/share/man/man1/cabal.1"
+    '';
+  });
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super