diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/builder.sh b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b61d421abc..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
index f9e1d8f261e..482b6acf0ae 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/screen/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "screen-4.0.2";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/screen-4.0.2.tar.gz;
     md5 = "ed68ea9b43d9fba0972cb017a24940a1";