diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index fa37db541..39bd8302e 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  - Sebastian Jaenicke: updated opera, maildrop and ntp
                        fixed mplayer /dev/misc/rtc useage
  - Andreas V. Meier: fixed nikolaus/unison to parse the uname output correctly
+ - fixed postflist_static_lib to also copy sym-links (e.g. if they dead links)
 
 *) 2003-11-10 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index ac9b8945b..0b47c214a 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ postflist_static_lib() {
 	echo_status "processing static lib corrections ..."
 	egrep '^lib/.*\.(a|la)$' $builddir/flist.txt |
 	while read fn ; do
-		[ -f $root/$fn ] || continue
+		[ -e $root/$fn -o -L $root/$fn ] || continue
 		if [[ $fn = *.a ]] ; then
 			mv -fv $root/$fn $root/usr/$fn
 		else