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diff --git a/lib/AutoLoader.pm b/lib/AutoLoader.pm
index dba8ca2f5f..3f5eef2375 100644
--- a/lib/AutoLoader.pm
+++ b/lib/AutoLoader.pm
@@ -1,13 +1,23 @@
package AutoLoader;
+use Carp;
AUTOLOAD {
my $name = "auto/$AUTOLOAD.al";
$name =~ s#::#/#g;
eval {require $name};
if ($@) {
- ($p,$f,$l) = caller($AutoLevel);
- $@ =~ s/ at .*\n//;
- die "$@ at $f line $l\n";
+ # The load might just have failed because the filename was too
+ # long for some old SVR3 systems which treat long names as errors.
+ # If we can succesfully truncate a long name then it's worth a go.
+ # There is a slight risk that we could pick up the wrong file here
+ # but autosplit should have warned about that when splitting.
+ if ($name =~ s/(\w{12,})\.al$/substr($1,0,11).".al"/e){
+ eval {require $name};
+ }
+ if ($@){
+ $@ =~ s/ at .*\n//;
+ croak $@;
+ }
}
goto &$AUTOLOAD;
}