losing leading / when copying symbolic links

[Diab Jerius]

Here's a mystery (to me at least!):

I've got a symbolic link on the source disk which looks like this:

> ls -l /proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp
[...]
/proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp -> 
/proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp-D20000304


my rsyncd.conf looks like:

[proj_axaf_simul_bin_xfer]
path = /proj/axaf/Simul/bin
read only = no


I run rsync on the source machine as

rsync -vrlptx --port=9753 \
      --delete \
      --force \
      --include '*/' \
      --include '**mips*-IRIX*/*' \
      --exclude '*' \
      /proj/axaf/Simul/bin/ jeeves::proj_axaf_simul_bin_xfer


and it turns the file on the remote disk into:

jeeves-155: ls -l /proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp
[...]
/proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp ->
proj/axaf/Simul/bin/mips4_r10k-IRIX-6/spatquant_bp-D20000304

Whatever happened to the leading /?

Thanks,
Diab