diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zeromq3-haskell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zeromq3-haskell/default.nix
index 3a3e700cfbbb..82dae54839ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zeromq3-haskell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zeromq3-haskell/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     QuickCheck testFramework testFrameworkQuickcheck2
   ];
   extraLibraries = [ zeromq ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/twittner/zeromq-haskell/";
     description = "Bindings to ZeroMQ 3.x";