diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/lens/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/lens/default.nix
index bba846689584..84a66d019dcc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/lens/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/lens/default.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
     testFrameworkHunit testFrameworkQuickcheck2 testFrameworkTh text
     transformers unorderedContainers vector
   ];
+  doCheck = false;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/ekmett/lens/";
     description = "Lenses, Folds and Traversals";