diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
index 65ed655e5797..7e043262f015 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: