diff --git a/etc/Makefile b/etc/Makefile
index 6bff501955127c3bfda9bafe97edc6c34a144eac..f0e55f84aa4d37d28f6430c88cd7025b713bdfe9 100644
--- a/etc/Makefile
+++ b/etc/Makefile
@@ -48,5 +48,4 @@ else
 #	cp asciiart/*.txt $(ETCDIR)/asciiart
 	mkdir -p $(ETCDIR)/scripts
 	cp scripts/*.py $(ETCDIR)/scripts
-	cp scripts/ttcn3_archive $(BINDIR)
 endif
diff --git a/etc/scripts/ttcn3_archive b/etc/scripts/ttcn3_archive
deleted file mode 100755
index aef646beef0216afbadf706ffa7c82e9be169064..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/etc/scripts/ttcn3_archive
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,163 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-###############################################################################
-# Copyright (c) 2000-2016 Ericsson Telecom AB
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
-#
-# Contributors:
-#   Baji, Laszlo
-#   Balasko, Jeno
-#
-###############################################################################
-###############################################################################
-# This script is intended to archive the project hierarchy from a TPD file structure
-###############################################################################
-use 5.010;
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use Cwd;
-use File::Copy;
-
-my $ttcn3_dir = $ENV{'TTCN3_DIR'};
-my $bindir = $ttcn3_dir . "/bin"; 
-my $home = cwd();
-my @list = readFile();
-my $tpd = getTPDFileName(\@list);
-chomp ($tpd);
-if (-l $tpd)  #get the path if it is a symlink
-{
-  $tpd = `readlink $tpd`;
-  chomp ($tpd);
-}
-my $root = getPathToRootDir(\@list); # get the workspace directory of the OS
-chomp ($root);
-chdir ($root) or die "cannot change: $!\n";
-my $cutstring = cwd; # this is string generated from the the absolute path to the workspace
-my $archiveDir = getArchiveDir(\@list); #directory to place the archive
-$archiveDir = $home . "/" .  $archiveDir;
-chomp ($archiveDir);
-my $createDir = "mkdir -p " .  $archiveDir;
-my $res = system($createDir);
-my $backupFileName = createBackupFileName();
-my $backupfile = $archiveDir . "/" . $backupFileName;
-if ($res != 0) { die (" creating directory " . $archiveDir ." failed\n"); }
-my $archive = $bindir . "/" . "ttcn3_makefilegen" ." -V -P " . $cutstring .  " -t " .  $tpd . " | xargs tar cfz ". $archiveDir . "/" .  $backupFileName . " 2> /dev/null";
-system($archive);  #running it
-if (-e $backupfile) { print ("archiving succeeded\n"); }
-else                { print ("archiving failed\n"); }
-chdir ($home) or die "cannot change: $!\n";
-############################################################
-sub readFile
-{
-  my $makefile = "Makefile";
-  open ( FILE,  "<", $makefile ) or die ( "failed to open file: $home\/$makefile\n" );
-  my @lines = <FILE>;
-  close FILE;
-  return  @lines;   
-}
-############################################################
-sub getPathToRootDir #get the relative path to OS workspace 
-{
-  my @list = @{$_[0]};
-  my $search = qr/^ROOT_DIR =/s;
-  my $offset = 0;
-  my $line;
-  for  my $i ( 0 .. $#list )
-    {
-        if ( $list[$i] =~ $search ) 
-          {
-             $line = $list[$i];
-             my $dot = '.';
-             $offset = index($list[$i], $dot);
-             last;
-          }
-    }
-  if ($offset  == 0) { die ( "no ROOT_DIR variable was found in the Makefile\n" ); }
-  my $path = substr $line,  $offset;
-  return $path;
-}
-############################################################
-sub getTPDFileName # TPD filename what the Makefile is created from
-{
-  my @list = @{$_[0]};
-  my $search = qr/^TPD =/s;
-  my $offset = 0;
-  my $line;
-  for  my $i ( 0 .. $#list )
-    {
-        if ( $list[$i] =~ $search ) 
-          {
-             $line = $list[$i];
-             my $assign = '=';
-             $offset = index($list[$i], $assign);
-             last;
-          }
-    }
-  if ($offset  == 0) { die ( "no TPD variable was found in the Makefile\n" ); }
-  my $file = substr $line,  $offset + 1;
-  $file =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//;  # remove heading and traling whitespaces 
-  return $file;
-}
-############################################################
-sub getArchiveDir # the name of the archive directory
-{
-  my @list = @{$_[0]};
-  my $search = qr/^ARCHIVE_DIR =/s;
-  my $offset = 0;
-  my $line;
-  for  my $i ( 0 .. $#list )
-    {
-        if ( $list[$i] =~ $search ) 
-          {
-             $line = $list[$i];
-             my $assign = '=';
-             $offset = index($list[$i], $assign);
-             last;
-          }
-    }
-  if ($offset  == 0) { die ( "no ARCHIVE_DIR variable was found in the Makefile\n" ); }
-  my $dir = substr $line,  $offset + 1;
-  $dir =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//;  # remove heading and trailing whitespaces 
-  return $dir;
-}
-############################################################
-sub getExecutableName # the name of the target executable
-{
-  my @list = @{$_[0]};
-  my $search = qr/^EXECUTABLE =/s;
-  my $offset = 0;
-  my $line;
-  for  my $i ( 0 .. $#list )
-    {
-        if ( $list[$i] =~ $search ) 
-          {
-             $line = $list[$i];
-             my $assign = '=';
-             $offset = index($list[$i], $assign);
-             last;
-          }
-    }
-  if ($offset  == 0) { die ( "no EXCUTABLE variable was found in the Makefile\n" ); }
-  my $exec = substr $line,  $offset + 1;
-  $exec =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//;  # remove heading and trailing whitespaces 
-  return $exec;
-}
-############################################################
-sub createBackupFileName
-{
-  my $backupFile = getExecutableName(\@list);
-  my $dot = '.';
-  my $result = index($backupFile, $dot);
-  if ($result > -1)
-  {
-     $backupFile = substr $backupFile,  0, $result;
-  }
-  chomp ($backupFile);
-  my $date =  `date '+%y%m%d-%H%M'`;
-  chomp ($date);
-  my $baseName = $backupFile . "-" . $date . ".tgz";
-  chomp ($baseName);
-  return $baseName;
-}