diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ec30571356..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-tar xvfz $src
-cd gperf-*
-./configure --prefix=$out
-make
-make install
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
index 9e6e11da2af..4f39ade5d7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gperf-2.7.2";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/gperf-2.7.2.tar.gz;
     md5 = "e501acc2e18eed2c8f25ca0ac2330d68";