diff --git a/webtools/bugzilla/runtests.sh b/webtools/bugzilla/runtests.sh
index f19134f9087e..164ec3acffea 100755
--- a/webtools/bugzilla/runtests.sh
+++ b/webtools/bugzilla/runtests.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 TEST_VERBOSE=0
-PART1='use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose='
-PART2='; runtests @ARGV;'
 for f in $*; do
   if [ "$f" = "--verbose" ] ; then
-    TEST_VERBOSE=1
+    TEST_VERBOSE="--verbose"
   fi
 done
 
-/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl -e "${PART1}${TEST_VERBOSE}${PART2}" t/*.t
+/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl runtests.pl ${TEST_VERBOSE}