diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2d9b3b0..6046114 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2303,6 +2303,8 @@ dnl Find freetype and fontconfig
 GNASH_PATH_FREETYPE2
 GNASH_PKG_FIND(fontconfig, [fontconfig/fontconfig.h], [fontconfig library], FcFontMatch)
 
+GNASH_PATH_CURL
+
 if test x$cross_compiling = xno; then
   AC_PATH_MING
 fi
@@ -2374,7 +2376,7 @@ if test x$cross_compiling = xno; then
            esac])
   AC_SUBST(RED5_HOST)
 fi
-AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_RED5_TESTING, [ test x"$RED5_HOST" != x ])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_RED5_TESTING, [ test x"$RED5_HOST" != x -a x"${curl_rtmp_support}" != x ])
 
 if test x$cross_compiling = xno; then
   AC_ARG_ENABLE([rtmpy_testing],
@@ -2677,8 +2679,6 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_XMLTEX, [ test x"$PDFXMLTEX" != x -a x"$XSLTPROC" != x -a
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_MAN, [ test x"$DB2X_MAN" != x -o x"$DB2X_MANXML" != x ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_AGG, [test x"${AGG_LIBS}" != x])
 
-GNASH_PATH_CURL
-
 dnl Define winsock if we're on windows. We could do something complicated,
 dnl but since AC_EXEEXT does it for us, we'll do this the easy way.
 if test x"$EXEEXT" = "exe"; then
@@ -3701,7 +3701,10 @@ if test x"$CURL_LIBS" != x; then
   else
     echo "        CURL flags are: default include path"
   fi
-    echo "        CURL libs are: $CURL_LIBS"
+  echo "        CURL libs are: $CURL_LIBS"
+  if test -z "$curl_rtmp_support"; then
+    PKG_WAR([CURL library present but built without RTMP support. Gnash will not be able to play RTMP streaming. Red5 tests disabled.])
+  fi
 else
   PKG_REC([If you install the CURL library, Gnash will be able to display remote content (streaming from URLs) using CURL.])
   PKG_SUGGEST([Install libcurl from http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl])
@@ -3910,7 +3913,7 @@ if test x"$testsuite" = x"yes"; then
       echo "        HTTP testsuite dir is $HTTP_TESTSUITE"
     fi
 
-    if test x"$RED5_HOST" != x; then
+    if test x"$RED5_HOST" != x -a x"${curl_rtmp_support}" != x; then
       echo "        RED5 testing host is $RED5_HOST"
     fi
   fi
diff --git a/macros/curl.m4 b/macros/curl.m4
index b0ad815..a1aaed3 100644
--- a/macros/curl.m4
+++ b/macros/curl.m4
@@ -134,6 +134,11 @@ AC_DEFUN([GNASH_PATH_CURL],
 
   if test -n "$CURL_LIBS"; then
     AC_DEFINE(USE_CURL, [1], [Define this if you want to enable curl usage])
+    if test x"${curlconfig}" != "x"; then
+      if test x"`${curlconfig} --protocols|grep RTMP`" != x; then
+        curl_rtmp_support=yes
+      fi
+    fi
   fi
 
   AC_SUBST(CURL_CFLAGS)