diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index dcf858e6155..91e61abf1bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1393,4 +1393,11 @@ self: super: {
   # See https://github.com/ekmett/perhaps/pull/5
   perhaps = doJailbreak super.perhaps;
 
+  # it wants to build a statically linked binary by default
+  hledger-flow = overrideCabal super.hledger-flow ( drv: {
+    postPatch = (drv.postPatch or "") + ''
+      substituteInPlace hledger-flow.cabal --replace "-static" ""
+    '';
+  });
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 4958a8bddc7..95dbcea342e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -5719,7 +5719,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - HLearn-distributions
   - hledger-api
   - hledger-chart
-  - hledger-flow
   - hledger-irr
   - hledger-vty
   - hlibBladeRF