diff --git a/external_deps/build.sh b/external_deps/build.sh
index b78a9f5290..43efa90132 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.
@@ -135,7 +130,7 @@ download() {
 			log ERROR "No more mirror to download ${tarball_file} from"
 		fi
 		local download_url="${1}"; shift
-		log status "Downloading ${download_url}"
+		log STATUS "Downloading ${download_url}"
 		if ! "${CURL}" -R -L --fail -o "${tarball_file}" "${download_url}"
 		then
 			log WARNING "Failed to download ${download_url}"
@@ -1295,6 +1290,11 @@ if [ "${#}" -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="$(command -v curl)" || log ERROR "Command 'curl' not found"
+
 # Enable parallel build
 export MAKEFLAGS="-j`nproc 2> /dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2> /dev/null || echo 1`"
 export SCONSFLAGS="${MAKEFLAGS}"