If lchown() is not available, we only skip the call to chown() for a

symlink if it will try to follow the symlink (as a normal OS should).

rsync.c

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ int set_perms(char *fname,struct file_struct *file,STRUCT_STAT *st,
 	change_uid = am_root && preserve_uid && st->st_uid != file->uid;
 	change_gid = preserve_gid && file->gid != GID_NONE
 		&& st->st_gid != file->gid;
-#if !HAVE_LCHOWN
+#if !HAVE_LCHOWN && !CHOWN_MODIFIES_SYMLINK
 	if (S_ISLNK(st->st_mode))
 		;
 	else