diff --git a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
index 303ac2e20f..5f457cd418 100644
--- a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
+++ b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
@@ -1972,6 +1972,15 @@
                 when compiled as a group
             </note>
         </mark-expected-failures>
+        <mark-expected-failures>
+            <test name="compose_test"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-3.4.6_linux_ia64"/>
+            <note author="Boris Gubenko">
+                On this platform, linking this test takes longer than 10 minutes
+                which is a time limit specified for bjam. When linked manually,
+                the test succeeds.
+            </note>
+        </mark-expected-failures>
         <mark-expected-failures>
             <test name="bzip2_test"/>
             <toolset name="gcc-3.4.3_sunos"/>
@@ -4086,6 +4095,13 @@ for more information.
                 were split into multiple source files.
                 </note>
             </mark-failure>
+            <mark-failure>
+                <toolset name="gcc-3.4.6_linux_ia64"/>
+                <note author="Boris Gubenko">
+                It looks like a compiler issue: the test fails with gcc 3.4.6
+                and succeeds with gcc 4.2.1.
+                </note>
+            </mark-failure>
         </test>
     </library>