diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index e5fcd77b372..82ba0a3c3ca 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ ACINCLUDE_FILE="acinclude.m4"
 ACINCLUDE_IN_FILE="acinclude.m4.in"
 ACINCLUDE_TMP_FILE="acinclude.m4.tmp"
 AC_CHECK_ICU_COMPRESSED_FILE="build-contrib/ac_check_icu.m4_2008-06-07.gz"
+AC_CHECK_CURL_COMPRESSED_FILE="build-contrib/ac_check_curl.m4_2008-04-12.gz"
 AUTHORS_FILE="authors.xml"
 BUILD_AUX_DIRECTORY="build-aux"
 CONFIG_GUESS_COMPRESSED_FILE="build-contrib/config.guess_2008-06-07.gz"
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ CONFIG_SUB_COMPRESSED_FILE="build-contrib/config.sub_2008-06-07.gz"
 CONFIG_SUB_FILE="build-aux/config.sub"
 M4_DIRECTORY="m4"
 M4_AC_CHECK_ICU_FILE="m4/ac_check_icu.m4"
+M4_AC_CHECK_CURL_FILE="m4/ac_check_curl.m4"
 REPOSITORY_URI="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk"
 
 basename=`basename $0`
@@ -122,6 +124,9 @@ process_file_collection () {
     echo "Installing \`"$M4_AC_CHECK_ICU_FILE"'"
     gzip --decompress --stdout \
         $AC_CHECK_ICU_COMPRESSED_FILE > $M4_AC_CHECK_ICU_FILE
+    echo "Installing \`"$M4_AC_CHECK_CURL_FILE"'"
+    gzip --decompress --stdout \
+        $AC_CHECK_CURL_COMPRESSED_FILE > $M4_AC_CHECK_CURL_FILE
 }
 
 run_aclocal () {
diff --git a/build-contrib/ac_check_curl.m4_2008-04-12.gz b/build-contrib/ac_check_curl.m4_2008-04-12.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..020e646fcfb
Binary files /dev/null and b/build-contrib/ac_check_curl.m4_2008-04-12.gz differ