diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
index c08fc3ee5852..fb801b6b8440 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/default.nix
@@ -3,16 +3,23 @@
   , ...} @ x:
 builderDefsPackage (a :  
 let 
-  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
   propagatedBuildInputs = with a; [
     gmp mpfr
   ];
   buildInputs = [ gmp libffi mpfr ];
 in
 rec {
-  src = a.fetchUrlFromSrcInfo s;
+  mainVersion = "12.7";
+  revision = "1";
+  version = "${mainVersion}.${revision}";
+
+  name = "ecl-${version}";
+
+  src = a.fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/ecls/ecls/${mainVersion}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0k8ww142g3bybvvnlijqsbidl8clbs1pb4ympk2ds07z5swvy2ap";
+  };
 
-  inherit (s) name;
   inherit buildInputs propagatedBuildInputs;
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-threads"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-for-default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1baaf4bbec45..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-for-default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-rec {
-   version="12.2.1";
-   name="ecl-12.2.1";
-   hash="dbb3f83c27f3d2565ca22c1c6b4ab497bbfdd0d0a7b09dee76338f378621f091";
-   url="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ecls/ecls/12.2/ecl-${version}.tgz";
-   advertisedUrl="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ecls/ecls/12.2/ecl-12.2.1.tgz";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-info-for-default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f5f3270f53a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ecl/src-info-for-default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-  downloadPage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecls/files/";
-  baseName = "ecl";
-  choiceCommand = "head -1 | sed -e 's@/download@@;'\"$skipRedirectSF\"";
-  sourceRegexp = ".*[.](tar.gz|tgz|tbz2|tar.bz2)";
-}