diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index b967e201ca..77007f44b7 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2020-11-25  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* output-file.c (output_file_close): Remove "can't close" from
+	error message.
+	* testsuite/gas/mips/reginfo-2.l: Update expected output.
+
 2020-11-04  Przemyslaw Wirkus  <przemyslaw.wirkus@arm.com>
 
 	* config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_cpus): Add Cortex-A78C.
diff --git a/gas/output-file.c b/gas/output-file.c
index 573598101c..b8d2132277 100644
--- a/gas/output-file.c
+++ b/gas/output-file.c
@@ -68,6 +68,5 @@ output_file_close (const char *filename)
   stdoutput = NULL;
 
   if (! res)
-    as_fatal (_("can't close %s: %s"), filename,
-	      bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
+    as_fatal ("%s: %s", filename, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
 }
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/mips/reginfo-2.l b/gas/testsuite/gas/mips/reginfo-2.l
index fd3efa93a2..3d171f2c09 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/mips/reginfo-2.l
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/mips/reginfo-2.l
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 .*: incorrect `\.reginfo' section size; expected 24, got 28
 .*: Assembler messages:
-.*: Fatal error: can't close .*: bad value
+.*: Fatal error: .*: bad value