diff --git a/package/thermald/thermald.mk b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
index ace4eed8e3..98e9c361e5 100644
--- a/package/thermald/thermald.mk
+++ b/package/thermald/thermald.mk
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ THERMALD_VERSION = 1.9.1
 THERMALD_SITE = $(call github,intel,thermal_daemon,v$(THERMALD_VERSION))
 # fetched from Github, with no configure script
 THERMALD_AUTORECONF = YES
-THERMALD_DEPENDENCIES = dbus dbus-glib libxml2
+THERMALD_DEPENDENCIES = dbus dbus-glib libxml2 $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
 # tools are GPL-3.0+ but are not added to the target
 THERMALD_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 THERMALD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+THERMALD_CONF_ENV = LIBS=$(TARGET_NLS_LIBS)
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD),y)
 THERMALD_DEPENDENCIES += systemd