diff -rupN tzcode-2013e/Makefile tzcode-2013e-modified/Makefile
--- tzcode-2013e/Makefile	2013-09-20 08:50:04.000000000 +0200
+++ tzcode-2013e-modified/Makefile	2013-09-25 11:30:42.688878224 +0200
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ LDLIBS=
 #  -DHAVE_SETTIMEOFDAY=3 if settimeofday ignores 2nd arg (4.4BSD)
 #  -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 if you have a pre-C99 compiler with "stdint.h"
 #  -DHAVE_SYMLINK=0 if your system lacks the symlink function
+#  -DHAVE_LINK=0 if your system lacks the link function
 #  -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "sys/stat.h"
 #  -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "sys/wait.h"
 #  -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=0 if your compiler lacks a "unistd.h" (Microsoft C++ 7?)
@@ -299,8 +300,8 @@ CC=		$(cc) -DTZDIR=\"$(TZDIR)\"
 
 TZCSRCS=	zic.c localtime.c asctime.c scheck.c ialloc.c
 TZCOBJS=	zic.o localtime.o asctime.o scheck.o ialloc.o
-TZDSRCS=	zdump.c localtime.c ialloc.c
-TZDOBJS=	zdump.o localtime.o ialloc.o
+TZDSRCS=	zdump.c localtime.c asctime.c ialloc.c
+TZDOBJS=	zdump.o localtime.o asctime.o ialloc.o
 DATESRCS=	date.c localtime.c strftime.c asctime.c
 DATEOBJS=	date.o localtime.o strftime.o asctime.o
 LIBSRCS=	localtime.c asctime.c difftime.c
diff -rupN tzcode-2013e/private.h tzcode-2013e-modified/private.h
--- tzcode-2013e/private.h	2013-09-09 06:48:01.000000000 +0200
+++ tzcode-2013e-modified/private.h	2013-09-25 11:30:49.276878328 +0200
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
 #define HAVE_SYMLINK		1
 #endif /* !defined HAVE_SYMLINK */
 
+#ifndef HAVE_LINK
+#define HAVE_LINK		1
+#endif /* !defined HAVE_LINK */
+
 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
 #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H		1
 #endif /* !defined HAVE_SYS_STAT_H */
diff -rupN tzcode-2013e/zic.c tzcode-2013e-modified/zic.c
--- tzcode-2013e/zic.c	2013-09-16 06:22:33.000000000 +0200
+++ tzcode-2013e-modified/zic.c	2013-09-25 11:30:57.960878463 +0200
@@ -586,6 +586,52 @@ _("%s: More than one -L option specified
 	return (errors == 0) ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
 }
 
+#if !HAVE_LINK
+#define SCRATCH_SIZE 8000
+
+int
+link(const char * fromname, const char * toname)
+{
+	FILE * fi;
+	FILE * fo;
+	char * scratch;
+	int err = 0;
+
+	fi = fopen(fromname, "rb");
+	if (!fi) return -1;
+
+	fo = fopen(toname, "wb");
+	if (!fo) {
+		fclose(fi);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	scratch = (char*)emalloc(SCRATCH_SIZE);
+	while (!feof(fi)) {
+		int nread = fread(scratch, 1, SCRATCH_SIZE, fi);
+		if (nread > 0) {
+			int nwritten = fwrite(scratch, 1, nread, fo);
+			if (nwritten != nread) {
+				err = -1;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		else if (feof(fi)) {
+			break;
+		}
+		else if (ferror(fi)) {
+			err = -1;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	free(scratch);
+	fclose(fo);
+	fclose(fi);
+
+	return err;
+}
+#endif /* !HAVE_LINK */
+
 static void
 dolink(const char *const fromfield, const char *const tofield)
 {