diff --git a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
index eabc0746cd..94a014a636 100644
--- a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
+++ b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
@@ -5439,6 +5439,27 @@ for more information.
         </mark-expected-failures>
     </library>
 
+  <library name="quickbook">
+    <mark-unusable>
+      <toolset name="gcc*-3.*"/>
+      <toolset name="gcc*-4.0*"/>
+      <toolset name="gcc*-4.1*"/>
+      <toolset name="gcc*-4.2*"/>
+      <toolset name="gcc*-4.3*"/>
+      <toolset name="qcc-3.*"/>
+      <toolset name="qcc-4.0.*"/>
+      <toolset name="qcc-4.1.*"/>
+      <toolset name="qcc-4.2.*"/>
+      <toolset name="qcc-4.3.*"/>
+      <toolset name="msvc-7.1"/>
+      <toolset name="msvc-8.0"/>
+      <toolset name="msvc-9.0"/>
+      <note author="Daniel James" date="30 Dec 2017">
+        Unsupported compiler
+      </note>
+    </mark-unusable>
+  </library>
+
     <!-- random -->
     <library name="random">
         <mark-unusable>