From 821984feece2129b3ad00235e8d0d2e2df3ba117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: slipher <slipher@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:41:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] external_deps: print error when curl not found

Also allow --help without curl.
---
 external_deps/build.sh | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/external_deps/build.sh b/external_deps/build.sh
index a068ae5461..30db90aa5f 100755
--- a/external_deps/build.sh
+++ b/external_deps/build.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@ set -u -e -o pipefail
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)"
 WORK_DIR="${PWD}"
 
-# Do not reuse self-built curl from external_deps custom PATH
-# to download source archives or we would get errors like:
-#   curl: (1) Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
-CURL="$(command -v curl)"
-
 # This should match the DEPS_VERSION in CMakeLists.txt.
 # This is mostly to ensure the path the files end up at if you build deps yourself
 # are the same as the ones when extracting from the downloaded packages.
@@ -1263,6 +1258,11 @@ if [ "${#}" -lt "2" ]; then
 	errorHelp
 fi
 
+# Do not reuse self-built curl from external_deps custom PATH
+# to download source archives or we would get errors like:
+#   curl: (1) Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
+CURL="$(command -v curl)" || log error "Command 'curl' not found"
+
 # Enable parallel build
 export MAKEFLAGS="-j`nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2> /dev/null || echo 1`"