Regression: 2.14 does not create directories of symlinks

[Kris Karas (Bug Reporting)]

    Hi cpio miantainers,
    
    I encountered a regression in cpio 2.14: the --make-directories
    option is ignored if the file being created is a symbolic link. 
    cpio 2.13 and prior are not affected.
    
    Example using cpio 2.14:
	# rpm2cpio < ../source/RPMS/libreoffice7.4-freedesktop-menus-7.4.7-2.noarch.rpm |\
	  cpio -i -u -m -d --no-absolute-filenames --quiet
	cpio: ./usr/bin/libreoffice7.4: Cannot open: No such file or directory
	cpio: ./usr/share/applications/libreoffice7.4-base.desktop: Cannot open: No such file or directory
	# ls ./usr/bin
	/bin/ls: cannot access './usr/bin': No such file or directory
	# 
    Same command after downgrading to cpio 2.13:
	# rpm2cpio < ../source/RPMS/libreoffice7.4-freedesktop-menus-7.4.7-2.noarch.rpm |\
	  cpio -i -u -m -d --no-absolute-filenames --quiet
	cpio: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
	# ls -l ./usr/bin
	total 4
	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 17 03:44 libreoffice7.4 -> opt/libreoffice7.4/program/soffice
	#
    As an aside, there's another bug - or rather a misfeature -
    displayed here, and that is that --no-absolute-filenames is not only
    removing the leading "/" from pathnames of files extracted, but also
    removes the leading "/" from the target of symbolic links.  This
    makes building an OS package very frustrating (as you need to remake
    all the symlinks by hand).
    
    That is, if we are extracting under /tmp/package_build/ we get
    /tmp/package_build/usr/bin/libreoffice7.4 and so on, which when
    installed under the root "/", we get this:
    
	# libreoffice7.4
	-bash: libreoffice7.4: command not found
	# readlink /usr/bin/libreoffice7.4
	opt/libreoffice7.4/program/soffice
	# realpath -m /usr/bin/libreoffice7.4
	/usr/bin/opt/libreoffice7.4/program/soffice
	#
    So, to fix this, one would want another option, similar to rsync's
    option --munge-symlinks, that defaults off but could be turned on to
    remove the leading "/" on the link target.
Best regards,
Kris