diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index b43e6f9e1..be5b15a93 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -85,100 +85,5 @@
     </checkstyle>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="checkstyle.style"
-          description="Runs checkstyle against it's own sources to test generation of error reports">
-    <taskdef name="checkstyle"
-             classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask">
-      <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>
-    </taskdef>
-    <delete file="${target.dir}/cachefile" />
 
-    <property name="checkstyle.pattern.todo" value="NOTHingWillMatCH_-"/>
-    <property name="check.config" location="checkstyle_checks.xml"/>
-    <checkstyle failonviolation="false" config="${check.config}">
-      <fileset dir="src/checkstyle"
-               includes="**/*.java,**/*.properties"
-               excludes="**/Generated*.java,**/gui/*"/>
-      <formatter type="xml" toFile="${target.dir}/cs_errors.xml"/>
-      <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>
-      <property key="checkstyle.cache.file" file="${target.dir}/cachefile"/>
-      <property key="checkstyle.header.file" file="java.header"/>
-      <property key="checkstyle.importcontrol.file" file="import-control.xml"/>
-      <property key="checkstyle.suppressions.file"
-                file="suppressions.xml"/>
-    </checkstyle>
-    <mkdir dir="${target.dir}/style/frames"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${target.dir}/style/noframes"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${target.dir}/style/noframes-sorted"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${target.dir}/style/simple"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${target.dir}/style/csv"/>
-    <mkdir dir="target/style/author"/>
-    <style basedir="${target.dir}"
-           destdir="${target.dir}/style/noframes"
-           includes="cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-noframes.xsl"/>
-    <style basedir="${target.dir}"
-           destdir="${target.dir}/style/noframes-sorted"
-           includes="cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-noframes-sorted.xsl"/>
-    <style basedir="${target.dir}"
-           destdir="${target.dir}/style/frames"
-           includes="cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-frames.xsl"/>
-    <style basedir="${target.dir}"
-           destdir="${target.dir}/style/simple"
-           includes="cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-simple.xsl"/>
-    <style out="${target.dir}/style/csv/report-csv.txt"
-           in="${target.dir}/cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-csv.xsl"/>
-    <style basedir="target"
-           destdir="target/style/author"
-           includes="cs_errors.xml"
-           style="contrib/checkstyle-author.xsl"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <?ignore
-  <!-- A GRAVEYARD OF IDEAS BELOW -->
-
-  <!-- runs the command line version on a file -->
-  <target name="run.checkstyle"
-          description="Runs the command line version on a file">
-    <java classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Main"
-          fork="yes"
-          dir="."
-          classpathref="run.classpath">
-      <sysproperty key="checkstyle.allow.tabs" value="yes"/>
-      <arg value="-c"/>
-      <arg file="checkstyle_checks.xml"/>
-      <arg value="src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/InputSimple.java"/>
-    </java>
-    <java classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Main"
-          fork="yes"
-          dir="."
-          classpathref="run.classpath">
-      <arg value="-c"/>
-      <arg file="checkstyle_checks.xml"/>
-      <arg value="-r"/>
-      <arg file="src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api"/>
-    </java>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="checkstyle.run" depends="compile.checkstyle"
-          description="Runs checkstyle.">
-    <taskdef name="checkstyle"
-             classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask">
-      <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>
-    </taskdef>
-    <delete file="${target.dir}/cachefile" />
-
-    <property name="checkstyle.pattern.todo" value="NOTHingWillMatCH_-"/>
-    <property name="check.config" location="checkstyle_checks.xml"/>
-    <checkstyle config="${custom.config}" file="${file.to.check}">
-      <formatter type="plain"/>
-      <formatter type="xml" toFile="${target.dir}/cs_errors.xml"/>
-      <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>
-    </checkstyle>
-  </target>
-  ?>
 </project>