diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 3accbb7d44a50..8c46078145695 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@ self: super: {
     ];
   }) super.statistics;
 
+  # Work around -Werror failures until a more permanent solution is released
+  # https://github.com/haskell-cryptography/HsOpenSSL/issues/88
+  # https://github.com/haskell-cryptography/HsOpenSSL/issues/93
+  # https://github.com/haskell-cryptography/HsOpenSSL/issues/95
+  HsOpenSSL = appendConfigureFlags [
+    "--ghc-option=-optc=-Wno-incompatible-pointer-types"
+  ] super.HsOpenSSL;
+
   # There are numerical tests on random data, that may fail occasionally
   lapack = dontCheck super.lapack;