diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 0df1e0550..176a5bc51 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ sub checkcurl {
 
     my $curl;
     my $libcurl;
-    my @version=`strace $CURL --version 2>fump`;
+    my @version=`$CURL --version 2>/dev/null`;
     for(@version) {
         chomp;