diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/template b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
index ede6e77c125..c490a263f70 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/thermald/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ _pkgname=thermal_daemon
 wrksrc="${_pkgname}-${version}"
 only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config"
-makedepends="dbus-glib-devel libxml2-devel glib-devel libgomp-devel"
+hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config glib-devel"
+makedepends="dbus-glib-devel libxml2-devel libglib-devel libgomp-devel"
 short_desc="The Linux Thermal Daemon program from 01.org"
 maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <abc@pompel.me>"
 license="GPL-2"
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=662456eff5b7ee5a42e54b8a667d002d3a4dec5cacbddc5e1ab5ec94dab218c6
 conf_files='/etc/thermald/*'
 
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" dbus-glib-devel" # for dbus-binding-tool
+fi
+
 pre_configure() {
+	sed -i '/-Werror/d' Makefile.am
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
 }