diff --git a/subversion.spec b/subversion.spec
index 061a7cf..a0510c8 100644
--- a/subversion.spec
+++ b/subversion.spec
@@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ fi
 rm -f %{buildroot}/var/adm/perl-modules/subversion
 
 %check
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1210
 ulimit -a
 # During "make check", auth-test loads DSOs at runtime and can't find
 # them if we don't set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH as below.
@@ -674,6 +675,7 @@ kill -9 `cat "$SVNSERVE_PIDFILE" 2>/dev/null`
 %if %with_ruby
 %__make check-swig-rb
 %endif # with_ruby
+%endif
 
 %clean
 %__rm -rf "%{buildroot}"