cpio is acting as if always invoked with -L (copy the file that a symlink 
points to, rather the symlink itself)
reason: missing check for lstat function in configure script
see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2005-01/msg00003.html
     http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80246

--- cpio-2.6-orig/config.h.in
+++ cpio-2.6/config.h.in
@@ -310,6 +310,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <unistd.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_UNISTD_H
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the `lstat' function. */
+#undef HAVE_LSTAT
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <utime.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_UTIME_H
 
--- cpio-2.6-orig/configure
+++ cpio-2.6/configure
@@ -1321,6 +1321,7 @@
 gl_func_list="$gl_func_list iswprint"
 gl_func_list="$gl_func_list mbsinit"
 gl_header_list="$gl_header_list unistd.h"
+gl_func_list="$gl_func_list lstat"