diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 0735ead8923cc..fc1bb95b9b7ec 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -19,12 +19,18 @@ environment:
     RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --enable-profiler
     SCRIPT: python x.py test
   - MSYS_BITS: 32
-    RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=i686-pc-windows-msvc --target=i686-pc-windows-msvc
-    SCRIPT: python x.py test --host i686-pc-windows-msvc --target i686-pc-windows-msvc
+    RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=i686-pc-windows-msvc
+    SCRIPT: python x.py test --exclude src/test/run-pass --exclude src/test/compile-fail
+  - MSYS_BITS: 32
+    RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=i686-pc-windows-msvc
+    SCRIPT: python x.py test src/test/run-pass src/test/compile-fail
 
   # MSVC aux tests
   - MSYS_BITS: 64
-    RUST_CHECK_TARGET: check-aux
+    RUST_CHECK_TARGET: check-aux AUX_ARGS="--exclude src/tools/cargotest --exclude src/tools/cargo"
+    RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+  - MSYS_BITS: 64
+    SCRIPT: python x.py test src/tools/cargotest src/tools/cargo
     RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
 
   # MSVC tools tests
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/mk/Makefile.in b/src/bootstrap/mk/Makefile.in
index 925a361f0b22e..97ea792c780ab 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/mk/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/bootstrap/mk/Makefile.in
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ check-aux:
 		src/test/run-pass-valgrind/pretty \
 		src/test/run-pass-fulldeps/pretty \
 		src/test/run-fail-fulldeps/pretty \
+		$(AUX_ARGS) \
 		$(BOOTSTRAP_ARGS)
 check-bootstrap:
 	$(Q)$(CFG_PYTHON) $(CFG_SRC_DIR)src/bootstrap/bootstrap_test.py
diff --git a/src/ci/run.sh b/src/ci/run.sh
index 3be1c255c164a..79300e08a7d36 100755
--- a/src/ci/run.sh
+++ b/src/ci/run.sh
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ else
     travis_fold start "make-$1"
     travis_time_start
     echo "make -j $ncpus $1"
-    make -j $ncpus "$1"
+    make -j $ncpus $1
     local retval=$?
     travis_fold end "make-$1"
     travis_time_finish