Make cURL a soft dependency

This makes sure that we only optionally require the same version of cURL
that CouchDB does.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/couchjs/c_src/SConscript b/couchjs/c_src/SConscript
index 451c03d3..68ad5d3e 100644
--- a/couchjs/c_src/SConscript
+++ b/couchjs/c_src/SConscript
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
 
     require_lib('m')
     require_lib('pthread')
-    require_lib('curl')
     require_lib('nspr4')
 
     ## check for SpiderMonkey development header
@@ -94,6 +93,16 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
     else:
         conf.Define("JSSCRIPT_TYPE", "JSObject*")
 
+    ## Check if curl is available
+    try:
+        vsn = runcmd("curl-config --version")[1]
+        vsn = vsn.split()[-1].strip().split(".")
+        vsn = tuple(map(int, vsn))
+        if vsn > (7, 18, 0):
+            require_lib('curl')
+    except:
+        pass
+
     ## Define properties for -h / -V
 
     (_, vsn) = runcmd("git describe --match 1.*")