diff -ru hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/configure.in hddtemp-0.3-beta15/configure.in
--- hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/configure.in	2005-10-17 20:14:19.000000000 +0100
+++ hddtemp-0.3-beta15/configure.in	2008-06-27 00:00:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 # append the host alias to the tools for cross compiling
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(iconv.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(netinet/in.h)
 AC_CHECK_TYPE(in_addr_t, ,[AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([in_addr_t], [uint32_t], [Define to 'uint32_t' if <netinet/in.h> does not define.])], [#include <netinet/in.h>])
 
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT
 #AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
 
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([bindtextdomain textdomain iconv])
+
 dnl reasonable guesses for where stuff is installed
 dnl if we don't do that now, the config.h will use ${prefix}
 dnl for DEFAULT_DATABASE_PATH.
diff -ru hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/src/hddtemp.c hddtemp-0.3-beta15/src/hddtemp.c
--- hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/src/hddtemp.c	2006-04-19 03:37:35.000000000 +0100
+++ hddtemp-0.3-beta15/src/hddtemp.c	2008-06-26 23:59:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -276,8 +276,12 @@
   backtrace_sigbus();
 
   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
+#ifdef HAVE_BINDTEXTDOMAIN
   bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_TEXTDOMAIN
   textdomain (PACKAGE);
+#endif
   
   show_db = debug = numeric = quiet = wakeup = af_hint = syslog_interval = 0;
   unit = DEFAULT;
diff -ru hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/src/utf8.c hddtemp-0.3-beta15/src/utf8.c
--- hddtemp-0.3-beta15.orig/src/utf8.c	2006-04-19 03:37:02.000000000 +0100
+++ hddtemp-0.3-beta15/src/utf8.c	2008-06-27 00:02:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
 
 // Standard includes
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
 #include <iconv.h>
+#endif
 #include <langinfo.h>
 #include <locale.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@
 
 static char *iconv_from_utf8_to_locale(const char *string, const char* fallback_string)
 {
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV
   const size_t buffer_inc = 80;	// Increment buffer size in 80 bytes step
   const char *charset;
   iconv_t cd;
@@ -93,6 +96,8 @@
   if (dest_buffer != NULL)
     free(dest_buffer);  		// free buffer
   free(src_buffer);			// free string
+#endif
+
   return strdup(fallback_string); 	// and return fallback string
 }