diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 860c2e6c205..5ed021ace7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -2541,6 +2541,7 @@ extra-packages:
   - happy <1.19.6                       # newer versions break Agda
   - haskell-gi-overloading == 0.0       # gi-* packages use this dependency to disable overloading support
   - haskell-src-exts == 1.18.*          # required by hoogle-5.0.4
+  - language-c == 0.7.0                 # required by c2hs hack to work around https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/192.
   - mtl < 2.2                           # newer versions require transformers > 0.4.x, which we cannot provide in GHC 7.8.x
   - mtl-prelude < 2                     # required for to build postgrest on mtl 2.1.x platforms
   - network == 2.6.3.1                  # newer versions don't compile with GHC 7.4.x and below