diff --git a/mingw32-libxml2-win32-pthreads-compatibility.patch b/mingw32-libxml2-win32-pthreads-compatibility.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bc965e3..0000000
--- a/mingw32-libxml2-win32-pthreads-compatibility.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- testThreads.c.orig	2009-09-11 18:09:00.268640135 +0200
-+++ testThreads.c	2009-09-11 18:12:43.412653512 +0200
-@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
- 
- 	for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
- 	    results[i] = NULL;
--	    tid[i] = (pthread_t) -1;
-+	    memset(&tid[i], 0, sizeof(pthread_t));
- 	}
- 
- 	for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
diff --git a/mingw32-libxml2.spec b/mingw32-libxml2.spec
index e3b900e..0b5eb57 100644
--- a/mingw32-libxml2.spec
+++ b/mingw32-libxml2.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 Name:           mingw32-libxml2
 Version:        2.7.4
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 # MinGW-specific patches.
 Patch1000:      mingw32-libxml2-2.7.2-with-modules.patch
 Patch1001:      mingw32-libxml2-static-build-compile-fix.patch
-Patch1002:      mingw32-libxml2-win32-pthreads-compatibility.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -61,7 +60,6 @@ Static version of the MinGW Windows XML processing library.
 
 %patch1000 -p1
 %patch1001 -p0
-%patch1002 -p0
 
 # Patched configure.in, so rebuild configure.
 libtoolize --force --copy
@@ -74,14 +72,14 @@ autoreconf
 mkdir build_static
 pushd build_static
     LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" \
-    %{_mingw32_configure} --without-python --with-modules --enable-static --disable-shared CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLIBXML_STATIC_FOR_DLL"
+    %{_mingw32_configure} --without-python --with-modules --enable-static --disable-shared --with-threads=yes CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLIBXML_STATIC_FOR_DLL"
     make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd
 
 mkdir build_shared
 pushd build_shared
     LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" \
-    %{_mingw32_configure} --without-python --with-modules --disable-static --enable-shared
+    %{_mingw32_configure} --without-python --with-modules --disable-static --enable-shared --with-threads=yes
     make %{?_smp_mflags}
 popd
 
@@ -133,6 +131,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Sep 12 2009 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.4-2
+- Always use the native win32 thread API even when pthreads is available
+- Dropped a patch which isn't necessary anymore
+
 * Fri Sep 11 2009 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro@fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.4-1
 - Update to 2.7.4
 - Drop upstreamed libxml2-2.7.3-ficora-parse.patch patch