my $modpname = join('/',@modparts);
my $c = () = split(/::/,$caller,-1);
$modlibname =~ s,[\\/][^\\/]+$,, while $c--; # Q&D basename
+EOT
+
+my $to_print = <<'EOT';
# Does this look like a relative path?
- if ($modlibname !~ m|^[\\/]|) {
+ if ($modlibname !~ m{regexp}) {
+EOT
+
+$to_print =~ s~regexp~
+ $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'cygwin' || $^O eq 'amigaos'
+ ? '^(?:[A-Za-z]:)?[\\\/]' # Optional drive letter
+ : '^/'
+~e;
+
+print OUT $to_print, <<'EOT';
# Someone may have a #line directive that changes the file name, or
# may be calling XSLoader::load from inside a string eval. We cer-
# tainly do not want to go loading some code that is not in @INC,