diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index be70986bf437..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-PATH=$PATH
-set
-tar xvfz $src
-cd joe-*
-./configure --prefix=$out
-make
-make install
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/default.nix
index 24fc4ceb36ab..cc6db1c2e8ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/joe/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
 name = "joe-3.3";
-builder = ./builder.sh;
 src = fetchurl {
          url = http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/joe-editor/joe-3.3.tar.gz;
          md5 = "02221716679c039c5da00c275d61dbf4";