diff --git a/test/Makefile.am b/test/Makefile.am
index ac9d62fff..8c36e659a 100644
--- a/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/test/Makefile.am
@@ -1086,6 +1086,10 @@ $(REFERENCE_IMAGES)
 #                         room, with Carl as a moderator and not let them out
 #                         until they have come up with an interface and
 #                         semantics that actually work. :-)
+# in-fill-empty-trapezoid The cairo_in_fill () function can sometimes
+#                         produce false positives when the tessellator
+#                         produces empty trapezoids and the query
+#                         point lands exactly on a trapezoid edge.
 # long-lines            - range overflow of fixed-point
 # scale-offset-image    - loss of precision converting a cairo matrix to
 # scale-offset-similar    pixman's fixed point format.
@@ -1109,6 +1113,7 @@ degenerate-path$(EXEEXT)			\
 device-offset-scale$(EXEEXT)			\
 extend-pad$(EXEEXT)				\
 fallback-resolution$(EXEEXT)			\
+in-fill-empty-trapezoid$(EXEEXT)		\
 long-lines$(EXEEXT)				\
 self-copy-overlap$(EXEEXT)			\
 self-intersecting$(EXEEXT)			\
diff --git a/test/in-fill-empty-trapezoid.c b/test/in-fill-empty-trapezoid.c
index 15ef01d3b..2b345cb98 100644
--- a/test/in-fill-empty-trapezoid.c
+++ b/test/in-fill-empty-trapezoid.c
@@ -83,14 +83,14 @@ preamble (cairo_test_context_t *ctx)
     if (CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS != status) {
 	cairo_test_log (ctx, "Failed to create a test surface and path: %s\n",
 			cairo_status_to_string (status));
-	ret = CAIRO_TEST_FAILURE;
+	ret = CAIRO_TEST_XFAILURE;
     }
 
     if (0 != false_positive_count) {
 	cairo_test_log (ctx, "Point sampling found %d false positives "
 			"from cairo_in_fill()\n",
 			false_positive_count);
-	ret = CAIRO_TEST_FAILURE;
+	ret = CAIRO_TEST_XFAILURE;
     }
 
     return ret;