$OpenBSD: patch-src_extract_c,v 1.1 2002/10/01 02:03:52 brad Exp $
--- src/extract.c.orig	Mon Sep 24 14:55:17 2001
+++ src/extract.c	Mon Sep 30 21:39:17 2002
@@ -1019,10 +1019,19 @@ extract_archive (void)
       {
 	struct stat st1, st2;
 	int e;
+	size_t skiplinkcrud;
+
+	if (absolute_names_option)
+	  skiplinkcrud = 0;
+	else {
+	  skiplinkcrud = FILESYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (current_link_name);
+	  while (ISSLASH (current_link_name[skiplinkcrud]))
+	    skiplinkcrud++;
+	}
 
 	/* MSDOS does not implement links.  However, djgpp's link() actually
 	   copies the file.  */
-	status = link (current_link_name, CURRENT_FILE_NAME);
+	status = link (current_link_name + skiplinkcrud, CURRENT_FILE_NAME);
 
 	if (status == 0)
 	  {