Trying to build cmake-native on a host system where curl was built with cmake (resulting in CURLConfig.cmake and friends, which do not use the same naming schemes expected by cmake-native's build process, being installed to a system wide cmake directory like /usr/lib64/cmake/CURL) results in undefined references to all libcurl symbols.

The problem is that cmake-native sees and uses the system wide /usr/lib64/cmake/CURL/CURLConfig.cmake, which defines CURL::libcurl and CURL::curl as opposed to setting ${CURL_LIBRARIES} as expected by cmake-native.

find_package(CURL) (cmake-native's CMakeLists.txt, line 478) succeeds, but incorrectly uses the system wide CURLConfig.cmake, resulting CMAKE_CURL_LIBRARIES to be set to an empty string (cmake-native's CMakeLists.txt, line 484), causing the cmake-native build to miss -lcurl.

find_package(CURL) in the context should prefer Modules/FindCURL.cmake (in cmake-native's source) over a system CURLConfig.cmake.

As expected, the obvious workaround (removing the host curl's cmake files) works.