diff --git a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
index 3554176f1c..65960cb9ba 100644
--- a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
+++ b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
@@ -3902,7 +3902,15 @@ for more information.
         <toolset name="vacpp*"/>
         <toolset name="borland-*"/>
         <toolset name="cray-8.0"/>
+        <toolset name="msvc-7.1*"/>
+        <toolset name="clang-*-3.1*11*"/>
+        <toolset name="gcc-mngw-gnu-4.3c+"/>
       </mark-unusable>
+      <test name="karma_*" category="Karma" />
+      <test name="lex_*" category="Lex" />
+      <test name="qi_*" category="Qi" />
+      <test name="support_*" category="Support" />
+      <test name="x3_*" category="X3" />
     </library>
 
     <!-- spirit (v2) repository -->
@@ -3910,7 +3918,12 @@ for more information.
       <mark-unusable>
         <toolset name="borland-cb2009"/>
         <toolset name="borland-cb2010"/>
+        <toolset name="msvc-7.1*"/>
+        <toolset name="clang-*-3.1*11*"/>
+        <toolset name="gcc-mngw-gnu-4.3c+"/>
       </mark-unusable>
+      <test name="karma_*" category="Karma" />
+      <test name="qi_*" category="Qi" />
     </library>
 
     <!-- spirit (classic) -->