diff --git a/waf b/waf
index f86576c71..e1e34d431 100755
Binary files a/waf and b/waf differ
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 352cdf3df..2967820c7 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ import wutils
 
 Configure.autoconfig = 0
 
-# until http://code.google.com/p/waf/issues/detail?id=1039 gets fixed...
-wutils.monkey_patch_Runner_start()
-
-
 # the following two variables are used by the target "waf dist"
 VERSION = file("VERSION", "rt").read().strip()
 APPNAME = 'ns'
diff --git a/wutils.py b/wutils.py
index 27cbd15d9..51f90003a 100644
--- a/wutils.py
+++ b/wutils.py
@@ -232,89 +232,3 @@ def run_python_program(program_string, env, visualize=False):
     return run_argv([env['PYTHON'][0]] + execvec, env, cwd=cwd)
 
 
-
-def monkey_patch_Runner_start():
-    """http://code.google.com/p/waf/issues/detail?id=1039"""
-    from waflib import Task
-    def start(self):
-        """
-        Give tasks to :py:class:`waflib.Runner.TaskConsumer` instances until the build finishes or the ``stop`` flag is set.
-        If only one job is used, then execute the tasks one by one, without consumers.
-        """
-
-        self.total = self.bld.total()
-
-        while not self.stop:
-
-            self.refill_task_list()
-
-            # consider the next task
-            tsk = self.get_next_task()
-            if not tsk:
-                if self.count:
-                    # tasks may add new ones after they are run
-                    continue
-                else:
-                    # no tasks to run, no tasks running, time to exit
-                    break
-
-            if tsk.hasrun:
-                # if the task is marked as "run", just skip it
-                self.processed += 1
-                continue
-
-            if self.stop: # stop immediately after a failure was detected
-                break
-
-            try:
-                st = tsk.runnable_status()
-            except Exception:
-                self.processed += 1
-                if not self.stop and self.bld.keep:
-                    tsk.hasrun = Task.SKIPPED
-                    if self.bld.keep == 1:
-                        # if -k stop at the first exception, if -kk try to go as far as possible
-                        self.stop = True
-                    continue
-                tsk.err_msg = Utils.ex_stack()
-                tsk.hasrun = Task.EXCEPTION
-                self.error_handler(tsk)
-                continue
-
-            if st == Task.ASK_LATER:
-                self.postpone(tsk)
-                # TODO optimize this
-                # if self.outstanding:
-                #   for x in tsk.run_after:
-                #       if x in self.outstanding:
-                #           self.outstanding.remove(x)
-                #           self.outstanding.insert(0, x)
-            elif st == Task.SKIP_ME:
-                self.processed += 1
-                tsk.hasrun = Task.SKIPPED
-                self.add_more_tasks(tsk)
-            else:
-                # run me: put the task in ready queue
-                tsk.position = (self.processed, self.total)
-                self.count += 1
-                tsk.master = self
-                self.processed += 1
-
-                if self.numjobs == 1:
-                    tsk.process()
-                else:
-                    self.add_task(tsk)
-
-        # self.count represents the tasks that have been made available to the consumer threads
-        # collect all the tasks after an error else the message may be incomplete
-        while self.error and self.count:
-            self.get_out()
-
-        #print loop
-        assert (self.count == 0 or self.stop)
-
-        # free the task pool, if any
-        self.free_task_pool()
-
-    from waflib.Runner import Parallel
-    Parallel.start = start