diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 5d997560d4..e7ae6ebbda 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -7,20 +7,6 @@ platform:
   arch: amd64
 
 steps:
-- name: build
-  image: gcc
-  commands:
-  - apt-get update
-  - apt-get install -y cmake build-essential
-  - mkdir debug
-  - cd debug
-  - cmake .. 
-  - make 
-  when:
-    branch:
-    - develop
-    - master
-
 - name: smoke_test
   image: python:3.8
   commands:
@@ -29,7 +15,11 @@ steps:
   - pip3 install psutil
   - pip3 install guppy3
   - pip3 install src/connector/python/linux/python3/
-  - cd tests
+  - mkdir debug
+  - cd debug
+  - cmake .. 
+  - make 
+  - cd ../tests
   - ./test-all.sh smoke
   when:
     branch: