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If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
-peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
-processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Using
-\fI--capath\fP can allow curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently
-than using \fI--cacert\fP if the \fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA
-certificates.
+peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against
+OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility
+supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to
+make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using \fI--cacert\fP if the
+\fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-f/--fail"