diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/accelerate-cuda/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/accelerate-cuda/default.nix
index aae77de6c6c9..4ed0f4ea5e38 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/accelerate-cuda/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/accelerate-cuda/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     hashable hashtables languageCQuote mainlandPretty mtl srcloc
     transformers unorderedContainers
   ];
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i -e 's|\<defaultMain\>|defaultMainWithHooks autoconfUserHooks|' Setup.hs
+  '';
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/project/accelerate/";
     description = "Accelerate backend for NVIDIA GPUs";