diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
index 32d6b72970c..ce6db9127d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ let
     ''}
   '';
 
+  docFixes = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/ghc-7.10.3a.patch";
+    sha256 = "1j45z4kcd3w1rzm4hapap2xc16bbh942qnzzdbdjcwqznsccznf0";
+  };
+
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -26,6 +31,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1vsgmic8csczl62ciz51iv8nhrkm72lyhbz7p7id13y2w7fcx46g";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    docFixes
+  ];
+
   buildInputs = [ ghc perl libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xml_dtd_42 hscolour ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;