diff --git a/STATUS.txt b/STATUS.txt
index ac1e274..a933fd6 100644
--- a/STATUS.txt
+++ b/STATUS.txt
@@ -24,20 +24,6 @@
 PATCHES ACCEPTED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK/OTHER:
   [ start all new proposals below, under PATCHES PROPOSED. ]
 
-* Align %2f handling between implementations of UDecoder.convert()
-  http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1203091&view=rev
-  +1: kkolinko, markt, funkman, jim
-  -1:
-
-* Remove obsolete build.xml file that was used to download source tree.
-  References to it were removed from build instructions in r1202235
-
-  1. svn del build/resources/build.xml
-  2. apply patch:
-  http://people.apache.org/~kkolinko/patches/2011-11-15_tc55_build.patch
-  +1: kkolinko, rjung, markt, jim
-  -1:
-
 * Fix https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52225
   Fix ClassCastException in Alias added for existing host via JMX
   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1204856&view=rev
diff --git a/build/build.xml b/build/build.xml
index 230972d..0f062fc 100644
--- a/build/build.xml
+++ b/build/build.xml
@@ -881,8 +881,6 @@
         filtering="true" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
 
     <!-- Add documents to the tomcat-docs webapp -->
-    <copy file="${basedir}/resources/build.xml"
-        todir="${tomcat.build}/webapps/tomcat-docs" />
     <copy file="./RELEASE-NOTES"
         tofile="${tomcat.build}/webapps/tomcat-docs/RELEASE-NOTES.txt"
         filtering="true" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
@@ -1448,9 +1446,6 @@
 
     <!-- Main build file -->
     <copy todir="${tomcat.dist}/src">
-      <fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
-        <include name="build.xml" />
-      </fileset>
       <fileset dir="..">
         <include name="LICENSE" />
         <include name="NOTICE" />
diff --git a/build/resources/build.xml b/build/resources/build.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 47e4f40..0000000
--- a/build/resources/build.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  limitations under the License.
--->
-<!-- This file is the Tomcat 5.x net build file.  It's what users run to build Tomcat -->
-<!-- from scratch.  See BUILDING.txt for the full instructions.                       -->
-<project name="Tomcat 5 Netbuild" default="build" basedir=".">
-
-  <!-- ===================== Initialize Property Values =================== -->
-
-  <!-- We read customizable properties from the file "build.properties.default" -->
-  <!-- and also from "build.properties" if it exists.                           -->
-  <!-- The values in "build.properties" have stronger preference.               -->
-  <!-- If you want to customize your build, you can either change the values    -->
-  <!-- directly in the default file, or create a new build.properties and set   -->
-  <!-- the values there. This way you don't have to change a file which is part -->
-  <!-- of the original project source code.                                     -->
-  <!-- See "build.properties.default" in the build directory for some           -->
-  <!-- property values you may customize.                                       -->
-  <property file="${user.home}/build.properties"/>
-  <property file="build.properties"/>
-  <property file="build.properties.default"/>
-
-  <!-- Project Properties -->
-  <property name="name"                  value="Apache Tomcat" />
-  <property name="year"                  value="2011" />
-  <property name="version"               value="5.5" />
-  <property name="project"               value="apache-tomcat" />
-  <property name="final.name"            value="${project}-${version}" />
-  <property name="final-src.name"        value="${project}-${version}-src" />
-
-  <!-- SVNROOT -->
-  <property name="svnroot" 
-           value="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/" />
-
-  <!-- Subprojects -->
-  <property name="api.project"           value="servletapi" />
-  <property name="tomcat.project"        value="build" />
-  <property name="catalina.project"      value="container" />
-  <property name="jtc.project"           value="connectors" />
-  <property name="jasper.project"        value="jasper" />
-
-  <property name="trunk.loc"           value="tomcat/tc5.5.x/trunk" />
-
-  <!-- Source dependencies -->
-  <property name="api.home"
-           value="${basedir}/${api.project}"/>
-  <property name="catalina.home" 
-           value="${basedir}/${catalina.project}"/>
-  <property name="jasper.home"
-           value="${basedir}/${jasper.project}"/>
-  <property name="jtc.home"
-           value="${basedir}/${jtc.project}"/>
-  <property name="tomcat.home"
-           value="${basedir}/${tomcat.project}"/>
-
-  <target name="build" depends="check.source,get.source"
-   description="Builds all components">
-
-    <ant dir="${tomcat.home}" target="download" />
-    <ant dir="${tomcat.home}" target="deploy" />
-
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- Top-level clean target added per Bugzilla 33325 -->
-  <target name="clean"
-          description="Clean (delete) all project files">
-    <echo message="Deleting all project files" />
-    <delete dir="${api.home}" />
-    <delete dir="${catalina.home}" />
-    <delete dir="${jasper.home}" />
-    <delete dir="${jtc.home}" />
-    <delete dir="${tomcat.home}" />
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="checkout"
-          description="Update or checkout required sources from SVN">
-
-    <echo level="info"
-          message="If the checkout fails, see http://tomcat.apache.org/svn.html and http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy" />
-
-    <!-- Bugzilla 37977: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37977 -->
-    <!--  hackish: inputstring="t${line.separator}" is t+<enter> for svn         -->
-    <!--  to temporarily accept the certificate of svn.apache.org.               -->
-    <exec dir="${basedir}"
-          executable="svn"
-          inputstring="t${line.separator}"
-          failonerror="true">
-      <arg value="checkout" />
-      <arg value="${svnroot}/${trunk.loc}" />
-      <arg value="${basedir}" />
-    </exec>
-
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- *************** UTILITY TARGETS *************** -->
-
-  <target name="check.source">
-
-    <available property="source.exists"
-                   file="${basedir}/${tomcat.project}" type="dir" />
-
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="get.source" unless="source.exists">
-
-    <antcall target="checkout" />
-
-  </target>
-
-</project>