When building on XP with "windows symlink draft 15.patch", I get:

Build started: Project: _hashlib, Configuration: Release|Win32
Performing Pre-Build Event...
Found a working perl at 'c:\opt\cygwin\bin\perl.exe'
Found an SSL directory at '..\..\openssl-0.9.8g'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build_ssl.py", line 258, in <module>
    main()
  File "build_ssl.py", line 241, in main
    shutil.copy(r"crypto\buildinf_%s.h" % arch, r"crypto\buildinf.h")
  File "C:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\shutil.py", line 102, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "C:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\shutil.py", line 50, in copyfile
    if _samefile(src, dst):
  File "C:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\shutil.py", line 40, in _samefile
    return os.path.samefile(src, dst)
  File "C:\home\eric\python\py3k\lib\ntpath.py", line 635, in samefile
    return _getfinalpathname(f1) == _getfinalpathname(f2)
NotImplementedError: GetFinalPathNameByHandle not available on this platform
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing
Pre-Build Event..."
Build log was saved at
"file://C:\home\eric\python\py3k\PCbuild\Win32-temp-Release\_hashlib\BuildLog
.htm"
_hashlib - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)