diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
index ce6db9127d68..f9f863ca78cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.10.3.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [
     docFixes
+    ./dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch   # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10752
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [ ghc perl libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xml_dtd_42 hscolour ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..129a34ecd86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git a/compiler/main/SysTools.hs b/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
+index 8c3ab1a..47a2da7 100644
+--- a/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
++++ b/compiler/main/SysTools.hs
+@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ runCc dflags args =   do
+       args1 = map Option (getOpts dflags opt_c)
+       args2 = args0 ++ args1 ++ args
+   mb_env <- getGccEnv args2
+-  runSomethingResponseFile dflags cc_filter "C Compiler" p args2 mb_env
++  runSomethingFiltered dflags cc_filter "C Compiler" p args2 mb_env
+  where
+   -- discard some harmless warnings from gcc that we can't turn off
+   cc_filter = unlines . doFilter . lines
+@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ runLink dflags args = do
+       args1     = map Option (getOpts dflags opt_l)
+       args2     = args0 ++ linkargs ++ args1 ++ args
+   mb_env <- getGccEnv args2
+-  runSomethingResponseFile dflags ld_filter "Linker" p args2 mb_env
++  runSomethingFiltered dflags ld_filter "Linker" p args2 mb_env
+   where
+     ld_filter = case (platformOS (targetPlatform dflags)) of
+                   OSSolaris2 -> sunos_ld_filter