diff --git a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
index 68fc5fce913da4e81aa3d6891ea884bd20bca320..d2a8cf31d284398a11058e893b2ea3a2bf69545a 100644
--- a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
@@ -30,15 +30,6 @@ License:        LGPLv2+
 Group:          Development/Libraries
 URL:            http://libvirt.org/
 Source0:        ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz
-Patch1:         0001-build-do-not-build-shunloadtest-if-pthread-missing.patch
-Patch2:         0002-build-fix-output-of-pid-values.patch
-Patch3:         0003-build-update-pid_t-type-static-check.patch
-# Mingw-w64 trunk (jan 27 2012) contains an inline implementation of the
-# vscanf and vfscanf functions in stdio.h. This break compilation of gnulib
-# which tries to provide its own implementation for the vscanf and vfscanf
-# functions. Workaround is by making sure that the inline implementation
-# isn't triggered by #include <stdio.h>
-Patch4:         libvirt-gnulib-workaround-mingw-w64-vfscanf-failure.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  mingw32-filesystem >= 95
 BuildRequires:  mingw64-filesystem >= 95
@@ -116,10 +107,6 @@ MinGW Windows libvirt virtualization library, static version.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n libvirt-%{version}
-%patch1 -p1
-%patch2 -p1
-%patch3 -p1
-%patch4 -p0
 
 %build
 %if ! %{with_phyp}