diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 9cdcfe539344ee9dbf32d58e8e57727564749a73..cae40bb7f0d9e0bc6d1272122b0ec5de86485146 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -56,13 +56,15 @@
 
 # These should be the only variables that might be needed to get edited:
 
+BEGIN {
+    @INC=(@INC, $ENV{'srcdir'}, ".");
+}
+
 use strict;
 #use Time::HiRes qw( gettimeofday );
 #use warnings;
 use Cwd;
 
-@INC=(@INC, $ENV{'srcdir'}, ".");
-
 # Variables and subs imported from sshhelp module
 use sshhelp qw(
     $sshexe