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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+### THIS IS DESIGNED TO BE RUN BY MAKE! DO NOT RUN FROM THE SHELL (because it MIGHT sigterm the shell)! ###
+
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
+
+use POSIX ();
+
+# Runs the compiler, passing it the given arguments.
+# Filters select output from the compiler's standard error channel and
+# can take different actions as a result.
+
+# NOTE: this is *NOT* a hash (sadly: a hash would stringize all the regexes and thus render them useless, plus you can't index a hash based on regexes anyway)
+# even though we use the => in it.
+
+# The subs are passed the message, and anything the regex captured.
+
+my @msgfilters = (
+	[ qr/^(.*) warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type `(.*)' through `\.\.\.'; call will abort at runtime/ => sub {
+		my ($msg, $where, $type) = @_;
+		my $errstr = "$where error: cannot pass objects of non-POD type `$type' through `...'\n";
+		if ($type =~ m/::string/) {
+			$errstr .= "$where (Did you forget to call c_str()?)\n";
+		}
+		die $errstr;
+	} ],
+);
+
+my $pid;
+
+my ($r_stderr, $w_stderr);
+
+my $cc = shift(@ARGV);
+
+if (!defined($cc) || $cc eq "") {
+	die "Compiler not specified!\n";
+}
+
+pipe($r_stderr, $w_stderr) or die "pipe stderr: $!\n";
+
+$pid = fork;
+
+die "Cannot fork to start gcc! $!\n" unless defined($pid);
+
+if ($pid) {
+	my $fail = 0;
+	# Parent - Close child-side pipes.
+	close $w_stderr;
+	# Close STDIN to ensure no conflicts with child.
+	close STDIN;
+	# Now read each line of stderr
+LINE:	while (defined(my $line = <$r_stderr>)) {
+		chomp $line;
+		for my $filter (@msgfilters) {
+			my @caps;
+			if (@caps = ($line =~ $filter->[0])) {
+				$@ = "";
+				eval {
+					$filter->[1]->($line, @caps);
+				};
+				if ($@) {
+					$fail = 1;
+					print STDERR $@;
+				}
+				next LINE;
+			}
+		}
+		print STDERR "$line\n";
+	}
+	waitpid $pid, 0;
+	close $r_stderr;
+	my $exit = $?;
+	# Simulate the same exit, so make gets the right termination info.
+	if (POSIX::WIFSIGNALED($exit)) {
+		# Make won't get the right termination info (it gets ours, not the compiler's), so we must tell the user what really happened ourselves!
+		print STDERR "$cc killed by signal " . POSIX::WTERMSIGN($exit) . "\n";
+		kill "TERM", getppid(); # Needed for bsd make.
+		kill "TERM", $$;
+	}
+	else {
+		if (POSIX::WEXITSTATUS($exit) == 0) {
+			if ($fail) {
+				kill "TERM", getppid(); # Needed for bsd make.
+				kill "TERM", $$;
+			}
+			exit 0;
+		} else {
+			exit POSIX::WEXITSTATUS($exit);
+		}
+	}
+} else {
+	# Child - Close parent-side pipes.
+	close $r_stderr;
+	# Divert stderr
+	open STDERR, ">&", $w_stderr or die "Cannot divert STDERR: $!\n";
+	# Run the compiler!
+	exec { $cc } $cc, @ARGV;
+	die "exec $cc: $!\n";
+}