diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl/run-ptest
index 22bb69ae0d..6d52f34a9f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl/run-ptest
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 for i in `ls tests/*.test | awk -F/ '{print $2}'`; do
     TCL_LIBRARY=library ./tcltest tests/all.tcl -file $i >$i.log 2>&1
-    grep -q "^Files with failing tests:" $i.log
+    grep -q -F -e "Files with failing tests:" -e "Test files exiting with errors:" $i.log
     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
         echo "FAIL: $i"
         cat $i.log