diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a0cecfd95d280054eae11dd7c650da1fd50f6970..ac4d57bfe10d3abefb344c3ae8fd9481a89daab3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ AC_PYTHON_MODULE(OpenSSL, t)
 AC_PYTHON_MODULE(simplejson, t)
 AC_PYTHON_MODULE(pyparsing, t)
 AC_PYTHON_MODULE(pyinotify, t)
+AC_PYTHON_MODULE(pycurl, t)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([ Makefile ])