diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.4.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.4.nix
index 640709aba1b8..54c53691574e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.4.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 , # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
   libffi ? null
 
-, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform)
+, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only depedendency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 
 , # What flavour to build. An empty string indicates no
   # specific flavour and falls back to ghc default values.
-  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform) "perf-cross"
+  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform)
+    (if useLLVM then "perf-cross" else "perf-cross-ncg")
 
 , # Whether to disable the large address space allocator
   # necessary fix for iOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ttdz1/building_an_osxi386_to_iosarm64_cross_compiler/d5qvd67/
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.5.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.5.nix
index e891ff42ff60..bc45540036d2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.5.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 , # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
   libffi ? null
 
-, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform)
+, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only depedendency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 
 , # What flavour to build. An empty string indicates no
   # specific flavour and falls back to ghc default values.
-  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform) "perf-cross"
+  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform)
+    (if useLLVM then "perf-cross" else "perf-cross-ncg")
 
 , # Whether to disable the large address space allocator
   # necessary fix for iOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ttdz1/building_an_osxi386_to_iosarm64_cross_compiler/d5qvd67/
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.1.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.1.nix
index 9772d045b765..ad2d64866f85 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.1.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 , # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
   libffi ? null
 
-, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform)
+, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only depedendency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 
 , # What flavour to build. An empty string indicates no
   # specific flavour and falls back to ghc default values.
-  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform) "perf-cross"
+  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform)
+    (if useLLVM then "perf-cross" else "perf-cross-ncg")
 
 , # Whether to disable the large address space allocator
   # necessary fix for iOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ttdz1/building_an_osxi386_to_iosarm64_cross_compiler/d5qvd67/
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix
index 88b273500dc0..46d8dfafd0fe 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 , libiconv ? null, ncurses
 
-, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform)
+, useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only depedendency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 , version ? "8.7.20190115"
 , # What flavour to build. An empty string indicates no
   # specific flavour and falls back to ghc default values.
-  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform) "perf-cross"
+  ghcFlavour ? stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.targetPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform)
+    (if useLLVM then "perf-cross" else "perf-cross-ncg")
 
 , # Whether to disable the large address space allocator
   # necessary fix for iOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ttdz1/building_an_osxi386_to_iosarm64_cross_compiler/d5qvd67/
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
index acccd155e08d..339973f05748 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ let
     buildPackages.gcc = nativePlatforms;
     coreutils = nativePlatforms;
     haskell.packages.ghcHEAD.hello = nativePlatforms;
-    haskell.packages.ghc844.hello = nativePlatforms;
+    haskellPackages.hello = nativePlatforms;
   };
 
   linuxCommon = lib.recursiveUpdate gnuCommon {