diff --git a/glib/tests/spawn-test.c b/glib/tests/spawn-test.c
index 95975f6..9fcf45f 100644
--- a/glib/tests/spawn-test.c
+++ b/glib/tests/spawn-test.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ test_spawn_basics (void)
   g_assert_true (result);
   g_test_message ("sort non-existing-file.txt error output: %s", erroutput);
 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32
-  g_assert_true (g_str_has_prefix (erroutput, "sort: "));
+  g_assert_true (g_str_has_prefix (erroutput, "sort: ") || g_str_has_prefix (erroutput, "/usr/bin/sort: "));
   g_assert_nonnull (strstr (erroutput, g_strerror (ENOENT)));
 #else
   {