diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/doctest/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/doctest/default.nix
index 5dffb52ce1e..3c8988400bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/doctest/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/doctest/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     baseCompat deepseq filepath ghcPaths hspec HUnit QuickCheck setenv
     silently stringbuilder syb transformers
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/sol/doctest-haskell#readme";
     description = "Test interactive Haskell examples";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/hspec-expectations/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/hspec-expectations/default.nix
index 4b84ad62784..8c9885d4378 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/hspec-expectations/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/hspec-expectations/default.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   sha256 = "1ppcbfmcgrd1lwswa293fxwny6khhg4blygfbcsawrvgc5ji0q74";
   buildDepends = [ HUnit ];
   testDepends = [ hspec HUnit markdownUnlit silently ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/sol/hspec-expectations#readme";
     description = "Catchy combinators for HUnit";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.1.0.3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.1.0.3.nix
index 1bfac2b13d2..8692d6267cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.1.0.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.1.0.3.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   version = "0.1.0.3";
   sha256 = "1c0yclil152hv06c2sbgam9amd63nnzh7a4xsnxb05wgy93qs2mg";
   buildDepends = [ deepseq HUnit ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/simonmar/monad-par";
     description = "A library for parallel programming based on a monad";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.3.4.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.3.4.nix
index f22ae9e106f..342bea47f6b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.3.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/monad-par/0.3.4.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     mwcRandom QuickCheck testFramework testFrameworkHunit
     testFrameworkQuickcheck2 testFrameworkTh time
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/simonmar/monad-par";
     description = "A library for parallel programming based on a monad";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/mwc-random/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/mwc-random/default.nix
index d20f4f061e4..3e9be2c5e58 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/mwc-random/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/mwc-random/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     HUnit QuickCheck statistics testFramework testFrameworkHunit
     testFrameworkQuickcheck2 vector
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/bos/mwc-random";
     description = "Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/setenv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/setenv/default.nix
index fd94874e364..b19728820aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/setenv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/setenv/default.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   version = "0.1.0";
   sha256 = "04w42bpfbrs5crjp19zzi9dg61xpz4wvmjs2vc7q7qxblyhdfdsy";
   testDepends = [ hspec QuickCheck ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     description = "A cross-platform library for setting environment variables";
     license = self.stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uuid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uuid/default.nix
index 55ac6cf9e68..ed7e23f6c21 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uuid/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uuid/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   testDepends = [
     criterion deepseq HUnit mersenneRandomPure64 QuickCheck random
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://projects.haskell.org/uuid/";
     description = "For creating, comparing, parsing and printing Universally Unique Identifiers";