diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index faf7ac1..5066996 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ if(LibArchive_FOUND)
   target_link_libraries(libtesseract PUBLIC ${LibArchive_LIBRARIES})
 endif(LibArchive_FOUND)
 if(CURL_FOUND)
-  if(NOT CURL_LIBRARIES)
+  if(TARGET CURL::libcurl)
     target_link_libraries(libtesseract PUBLIC CURL::libcurl)
   else()
     target_link_libraries(libtesseract PUBLIC ${CURL_LIBRARIES})