diff --git a/test/framework/options.py b/test/framework/options.py
index 3be8430776..70a66dff7d 100644
--- a/test/framework/options.py
+++ b/test/framework/options.py
@@ -895,7 +895,8 @@ def test_from_pr(self):
             ]
             for path_prefix, module in modules:
                 ec_fn = "%s.eb" % '-'.join(module.split('/'))
-                regex = re.compile(r"^ \* \[.\] %s.*%s \(module: %s\)$" % (path_prefix, ec_fn, module), re.M)
+                path = '.*%s' % os.path.dirname(path_prefix)
+                regex = re.compile(r"^ \* \[.\] %s.*%s \(module: %s\)$" % (path, ec_fn, module), re.M)
                 self.assertTrue(regex.search(outtxt), "Found pattern %s in %s" % (regex.pattern, outtxt))
 
             # make sure that *only* these modules are listed, no others
@@ -903,7 +904,7 @@ def test_from_pr(self):
             self.assertTrue(sorted(regex.findall(outtxt)), sorted(modules))
 
             pr_tmpdir = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'eb-\S{6}', 'files_pr1239')
-            regex = re.compile("Prepended list of robot search paths with %s:" % pr_tmpdir, re.M)
+            regex = re.compile("Appended list of robot search paths with %s:" % pr_tmpdir, re.M)
             self.assertTrue(regex.search(outtxt), "Found pattern %s in %s" % (regex.pattern, outtxt))
         except URLError, err:
             print "Ignoring URLError '%s' in test_from_pr" % err
@@ -945,12 +946,12 @@ def test_from_pr_listed_ecs(self):
             outtxt = self.eb_main(args, logfile=dummylogfn, raise_error=True)
             modules = [
                 (test_ecs_path, 'toy/0.0'),  # not included in PR
-                (tmpdir, 'GCC/4.9.2'),  # not included in PR
-                (tmpdir, 'hwloc/1.10.0-GCC-4.9.2'),
-                (tmpdir, 'numactl/2.0.10-GCC-4.9.2'),
-                (tmpdir, 'OpenMPI/1.8.4-GCC-4.9.2'),
-                (tmpdir, 'gompi/2015a'),
-                (test_ecs_path, 'GCC/4.6.3'),  # not included in PR
+                (test_ecs_path, 'GCC/4.9.2'),  # not included in PR, available locally
+                ('.*%s' % os.path.dirname(tmpdir), 'hwloc/1.10.0-GCC-4.9.2'),
+                ('.*%s' % os.path.dirname(tmpdir), 'numactl/2.0.10-GCC-4.9.2'),
+                ('.*%s' % os.path.dirname(tmpdir), 'OpenMPI/1.8.4-GCC-4.9.2'),
+                ('.*%s' % os.path.dirname(tmpdir), 'gompi/2015a'),
+                (test_ecs_path, 'GCC/4.6.3'),  # not included in PR, available locally
             ]
             for path_prefix, module in modules:
                 ec_fn = "%s.eb" % '-'.join(module.split('/'))