diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/base64-bytestring/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/base64-bytestring/default.nix
index 67450dc8887..6b753f7b980 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/base64-bytestring/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/base64-bytestring/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     HUnit QuickCheck testFramework testFrameworkHunit
     testFrameworkQuickcheck2
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/bos/base64-bytestring";
     description = "Fast base64 encoding and decoding for ByteStrings";