rsync 3.0.8 failed to compile with strange linker error

I'm trying to build rsync 3.0.8 on msys 1.0.17, gcc 3.4.4, and I'm
getting the following linker error:

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gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -I./popt
-Wno-unused-parameter  -o rsync.exe flist.o rsync.o generator.o
receiver.o cleanup.o sender.o exclude.o util.o main.o checksum.o match.o
syscall.o log.o backup.o options.o io.o compat.o hlink.o token.o
uidlist.o socket.o hashtable.o fileio.o batch.o clientname.o chmod.o
acls.o xattrs.o progress.o pipe.o params.o loadparm.o clientserver.o
access.o connection.o authenticate.o lib/wildmatch.o lib/compat.o
lib/snprintf.o lib/mdfour.o lib/md5.o lib/permstring.o lib/pool_alloc.o
lib/sysacls.o lib/sysxattrs.o  lib/inet_ntop.o lib/inet_pton.o
lib/getaddrinfo.o zlib/deflate.o zlib/inffast.o zlib/inflate.o
zlib/inftrees.o zlib/trees.o zlib/zutil.o zlib/adler32.o zlib/compress.o
zlib/crc32.o popt/findme.o  popt/popt.o  popt/poptconfig.o
popt/popthelp.o popt/poptparse.o
fu000001.o:(.idata$2+0xc): undefined reference to `_templib_a_iname'
nmth000000.o:(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to `__nm__h_errno'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [rsync.exe] Error 1
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Many thanks in advance,

-- 
Cesar


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