1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tests/md5sum/newline-1 b/tests/md5sum/newline-1
index a075f3f50..7473e554d 100755
--- a/tests/md5sum/newline-1
+++ b/tests/md5sum/newline-1
@@ -3,13 +3,11 @@
 : ${PERL=perl}
 : ${srcdir=.}
 
-case "$PERL" in
-  *'missing perl')
+$PERL -e 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
   echo 1>&2 "$0: configure didn't find a usable version of Perl," \
     "so can't run this test"
   exit 77
-  ;;
-esac
+}
 
 # See if we can create a filename that contains a newline.
 # Be careful to do it in a subshell so that we can redirect the