qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257 (timer_create)

Running qemu-arm-static for git HEAD. When I try to install ghc from debian into my arm chroot I get:

Setting up ghc (7.4.1-4) ...
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257
ghc: timer_create: Function not implemented
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 257
ghc-pkg: timer_create: Function not implemented
dpkg: error processing ghc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ghc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)