diff --git a/bin/build_devel.sh b/bin/build_devel.sh
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--- a/bin/build_devel.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# TODO: this script has been made obsolete by the Makefile, yet downstream
-# package managers plausibly rely on it for compiling locally. Remove this file
-# after downstream maintainers have had time to modify their packages to simply
-# invoke `make` in the project root.
-
-# locate the cheat project root
-BINDIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
-APPDIR=$(readlink -f "$BINDIR/..")
-
-# compile the executable
-cd $APPDIR
-
-make