Can build older OpenSSL in http://svn.python.org/projects/externals/

without Perl again.

PC/VC6/build_ssl.py

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def main():
             copy(r"crypto\opensslconf.h", r"crypto\opensslconf_%s.h" % arch)
 
         # If the assembler files don't exist in tmpXX, copy them there
-        if perl is None:
+        if perl is None and os.path.exists("asm"+dirsuffix):
             if not os.path.exists("tmp"+dirsuffix):
                 os.mkdir("tmp"+dirsuffix)
             for f in os.listdir("asm"+dirsuffix):

PC/VS8.0/build_ssl.py

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def main():
             copy(r"crypto\opensslconf.h", r"crypto\opensslconf_%s.h" % arch)
 
         # If the assembler files don't exist in tmpXX, copy them there
-        if perl is None:
+        if perl is None and os.path.exists("asm"+dirsuffix):
             if not os.path.exists("tmp"+dirsuffix):
                 os.mkdir("tmp"+dirsuffix)
             for f in os.listdir("asm"+dirsuffix):

PCbuild/build_ssl.py

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def main():
             copy(r"crypto\opensslconf.h", r"crypto\opensslconf_%s.h" % arch)
 
         # If the assembler files don't exist in tmpXX, copy them there
-        if perl is None:
+        if perl is None and os.path.exists("asm"+dirsuffix):
             if not os.path.exists("tmp"+dirsuffix):
                 os.mkdir("tmp"+dirsuffix)
             for f in os.listdir("asm"+dirsuffix):