[boost] [build] 1.49 unable to bootstrap boost

Not sure if this goes here. On Windows 7, when I try to do bootstrap on a freshly unzipped boost 1.49 at the root directory, I get the following output: Building Boost.Build engine But that is as far as it gets before os terminates whatever it is doing with this (roughly translated from russian): ****                 STACK SIZE EXCEEDED                **** ****      WHILE PERFORMING RECURSION IN BATCH MODE      **** Recursion depth=654, Stack usage=90 percent. ****              BATCH PROCESSING ABORTED              **** Is there a way to build boost bypassing this?