diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/commoncpp2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/commoncpp2/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c5ab758583..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/commoncpp2/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchurl, stdenv }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "commoncpp2-1.8.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/commoncpp/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0kmgr5w3b1qwzxnsnw94q6rqs0hr8nbv9clf07ca2a2fyypx9kjk";
-  };
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    echo '#include <sys/stat.h>' >> inc/cc++/config.h
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "GNU Common C++, a portable, highly optimized C++ class framework";
-
-    longDescription =
-      '' GNU Common C++ and GNU uCommon are very portable and highly
-         optimized class framework for writing C++ applications that need to
-         use threads and support concurrent sychronization, and that use
-         sockets, XML parsing, object serialization, thread-optimized String
-         and data structure classes, etc.  This framework offers a class
-         foundation that hides platform differences from your C++ application
-         so that you need not write platform specific code.  GNU Common C++
-         has been ported to compile nativily on most platforms which support
-         either posix threads, or on maybe be used with Debian hosted mingw32
-         to build native threading applications for Microsoft Windows.
-      '';
-
-    homepage = https://www.gnu.org/software/commoncpp/;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber ];
-    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2e71ccc529a..4a8f1cbae2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11002,8 +11002,6 @@ in
 
   cointop = callPackage ../applications/misc/cointop { };
 
-  commoncpp2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/commoncpp2 { };
-
   ctl = callPackage ../development/libraries/ctl { };
 
   ctpp2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/ctpp2 { };