diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index adcbd1339..599a3c356 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Yang Tse (13 Sep 2008)
+- Disable tracking of fdopen() calls in the low-level memory leak tracking
+  code when fdopen() is not available, to avoid compiler error.
+
 Yang Tse (12 Sep 2008)
 - Further adjust detection of strerror_r() in the configure process, and
   ensure that errno is not modified inside Curl_strerror().
diff --git a/lib/memdebug.c b/lib/memdebug.c
index 413247e77..000e2469c 100644
--- a/lib/memdebug.c
+++ b/lib/memdebug.c
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ FILE *curl_fopen(const char *file, const char *mode,
   return res;
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_FDOPEN
 FILE *curl_fdopen(int filedes, const char *mode,
                   int line, const char *source)
 {
@@ -292,6 +293,7 @@ FILE *curl_fdopen(int filedes, const char *mode,
             source, line, filedes, mode, res);
   return res;
 }
+#endif
 
 int curl_fclose(FILE *file, int line, const char *source)
 {
diff --git a/lib/memdebug.h b/lib/memdebug.h
index 4e50ad1bb..8bfcc63b3 100644
--- a/lib/memdebug.h
+++ b/lib/memdebug.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ CURL_EXTERN int curl_accept(int s, void *addr, void *addrlen,
 /* FILE functions */
 CURL_EXTERN FILE *curl_fopen(const char *file, const char *mode, int line,
                              const char *source);
+#ifdef HAVE_FDOPEN
 CURL_EXTERN FILE *curl_fdopen(int filedes, const char *mode, int line,
                               const char *source);
+#endif
 CURL_EXTERN int curl_fclose(FILE *file, int line, const char *source);
 
 #ifndef MEMDEBUG_NODEFINES