diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
index 65ed655e57974..d67e9f47ac48f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
@@ -282,6 +282,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       isScript "$i" || continue
       sed -i -e '2i export PATH="${lib.makeBinPath runtimeDeps}:$PATH"' "$i"
     done
+  '' + lib.optionalString stdenv.targetPlatform.isDarwin ''
+    # Work around building with binary GHC on Darwin due to GHC’s use of `ar -L` when it
+    # detects `llvm-ar` even though the resulting archives are not supported by ld64.
+    # https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/23188
+    # https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/8882
+    sed -i -e 's/,("ar supports -L", "YES")/,("ar supports -L", "NO")/' "$out/lib/ghc-${version}/lib/settings"
   '';
 
   # Apparently necessary for the ghc Alpine (musl) bindist:
@@ -403,8 +409,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # `pkgsMusl`.
     platforms = builtins.attrNames ghcBinDists.${distSetName};
     maintainers = lib.teams.haskell.members;
-    # packages involving hsc2hs (clock) produce libraries our
-    # ld can't link against
-    broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
index 24a8e979b0203..a457559bc8ea6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
@@ -342,13 +342,6 @@ in {
           packages.ghc963
         else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isPower64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isLittleEndian then
           packages.ghc963
-        else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then
-          # it seems like the GHC 9.6.* bindists are built with a different
-          # toolchain than we are using (which I'm guessing from the fact
-          # that 9.6.4 bindists pass linker flags our ld doesn't support).
-          # With both 9.6.3 and 9.6.4 binary it is impossible to link against
-          # the clock package (probably a hsc2hs problem).
-          packages.ghc963
         else
           packages.ghc963Binary;
       inherit (buildPackages.python3Packages) sphinx;
@@ -367,13 +360,6 @@ in {
           packages.ghc963
         else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isPower64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isLittleEndian then
           packages.ghc963
-        else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then
-          # it seems like the GHC 9.6.* bindists are built with a different
-          # toolchain than we are using (which I'm guessing from the fact
-          # that 9.6.4 bindists pass linker flags our ld doesn't support).
-          # With both 9.6.3 and 9.6.4 binary it is impossible to link against
-          # the clock package (probably a hsc2hs problem).
-          packages.ghc963
         else
           packages.ghc963Binary;
       inherit (buildPackages.python3Packages) sphinx;
@@ -419,13 +405,6 @@ in {
           packages.ghc963
         else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isPower64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isLittleEndian then
           packages.ghc963
-        else if stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then
-          # it seems like the GHC 9.6.* bindists are built with a different
-          # toolchain than we are using (which I'm guessing from the fact
-          # that 9.6.4 bindists pass linker flags our ld doesn't support).
-          # With both 9.6.3 and 9.6.4 binary it is impossible to link against
-          # the clock package (probably a hsc2hs problem).
-          packages.ghc963
         else
           packages.ghc963Binary;
       inherit (buildPackages.python3Packages) sphinx;