From: simonpj@microsoft.com <unknown>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:30:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Cope with recent versions of Perl that lack the $* feature
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ead14fa4cfd532568c1366a577e9579b0b69ac96

Cope with recent versions of Perl that lack the $* feature
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diff --git a/utils/runstdtest/runstdtest.prl b/utils/runstdtest/runstdtest.prl
index 385a9fb..ae1822b 100644
--- a/utils/runstdtest/runstdtest.prl
+++ b/utils/runstdtest/runstdtest.prl
@@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ if ($PostScript ne '') {
     local($to_do);
     $PostScriptLines = `cat $PostScript`;
     $PostScriptLines =~ s/\r//g;
-    $* = 1;
-    $PostScriptLines =~ s#\$o1#$TmpPrefix/runtest$$.1#g;
-    $PostScriptLines =~ s#\$o2#$TmpPrefix/runtest$$.2#g;
+    $PostScriptLines =~ s#\$o1#$TmpPrefix/runtest$$.1#gm;
+    $PostScriptLines =~ s#\$o2#$TmpPrefix/runtest$$.2#gm;
+# The postfix 'm' deals with recent versions of 
+# Perl that removed the $* feature
 } else {
     $PostScriptLines = '';
 }