svn merge didn't merge link file correctly

I created a branch from a branch in order to do merging of code from a CVS
repository that has changed since the SVN repository was created from the
CVS files.

But, one of the things I've done since the creation of the SVN tree is
create some symbolic links. Within the branch the "svn update" works
correctly such that working copies have the symbolically linked files
created correctly.

But, when I did a merge from the original branch to the special branch
(that will wither on the tree once the merge is done), the file that was a
symbolic link in the original branch turned into a file on the new branch,
four bytes larger.

The contents of the file is:

        cat PinnacleStatic/bin/-sparc/libstdc++.so.5

It is really supposed to be:

        lrwxrwxrwx 1 current code 18 Jun 14 16:01
PinnacleStatic/bin/-sparc/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5

Why did the merge screw up? Is this a bug? I am not at SVN 1.2.

Thanks for any tips.

MB
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Received on Mon Jun 20 21:52:15 2005