diff --git a/testcases/complete-run.pl b/testcases/complete-run.pl
index 560dd4c3..c6e74369 100755
--- a/testcases/complete-run.pl
+++ b/testcases/complete-run.pl
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ my $timingsjson = StartXDummy::slurp('.last_run_timings.json');
 
 # Run 000-load-deps.t first to bail out early when dependencies are missing.
 my $loadtest = "t/000-load-deps.t";
-if ($loadtest ~~ @testfiles) {
+if ((scalar grep { $_ eq $loadtest } @testfiles) > 0) {
     @testfiles = ($loadtest, grep { $_ ne $loadtest } @testfiles);
 }