diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
index 09ab30bb176..1998b090687 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 , jailbreak ? false
 , license
 , maintainers ? []
+, doCoverage ? false
 # TODO Do we care about haddock when cross-compiling?
 , doHaddock ? !isCross && (!stdenv.isDarwin || stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ghc.version "7.8")
 , passthru ? {}
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ assert enableSplitObjs == null;
 
 let
 
-  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalString versionOlder
+  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalString versionOlder versionAtLeast
                        concatStringsSep enableFeature optionalAttrs toUpper;
 
   isGhcjs = ghc.isGhcjs or false;
@@ -111,10 +112,11 @@ let
     (optionalString (enableSharedExecutables && stdenv.isDarwin) "--ghc-option=-optl=-Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names")
     (optionalString enableParallelBuilding "--ghc-option=-j$NIX_BUILD_CORES")
     (optionalString useCpphs "--with-cpphs=${cpphs}/bin/cpphs --ghc-options=-cpp --ghc-options=-pgmP${cpphs}/bin/cpphs --ghc-options=-optP--cpp")
-    (enableFeature (enableDeadCodeElimination && (stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast "8.0.1" ghc.version)) "split-objs")
+    (enableFeature (enableDeadCodeElimination && (versionAtLeast "8.0.1" ghc.version)) "split-objs")
     (enableFeature enableLibraryProfiling "library-profiling")
     (enableFeature enableExecutableProfiling (if versionOlder ghc.version "8" then "executable-profiling" else "profiling"))
     (enableFeature enableSharedLibraries "shared")
+    (optionalString (versionAtLeast ghc.version "7.10") (enableFeature doCoverage "coverage"))
     (optionalString (isGhcjs || versionOlder "7" ghc.version) (enableFeature enableStaticLibraries "library-vanilla"))
     (optionalString (isGhcjs || versionOlder "7.4" ghc.version) (enableFeature enableSharedExecutables "executable-dynamic"))
     (optionalString (isGhcjs || versionOlder "7" ghc.version) (enableFeature doCheck "tests"))
@@ -286,7 +288,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
       local pkgId=$( ${gnused}/bin/sed -n -e 's|^id: ||p' $packageConfFile )
       mv $packageConfFile $packageConfDir/$pkgId.conf
     ''}
-
+    ${optionalString doCoverage "mkdir -p $out/share && cp -r dist/hpc $out/share"}
     ${optionalString (enableSharedExecutables && isExecutable && !isGhcjs && stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.lib.versionOlder ghc.version "7.10") ''
       for exe in "$out/bin/"* ; do
         install_name_tool -add_rpath "$out/lib/ghc-${ghc.version}/${pname}-${version}" "$exe"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/lib.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/lib.nix
index f7c9811234e..cc9daf336b0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/lib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/lib.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ rec {
     overrideScope = scope: overrideCabal (drv.overrideScope scope) f;
   };
 
+  doCoverage = drv: overrideCabal drv (drv: { doCoverage = true; });
+  dontCoverage = drv: overrideCabal drv (drv: { doCoverage = false; });
+
   doHaddock = drv: overrideCabal drv (drv: { doHaddock = true; });
   dontHaddock = drv: overrideCabal drv (drv: { doHaddock = false; });