diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am b/winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am
index 28c143434..265b6bf69 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am
@@ -639,11 +639,8 @@ $(PRE_DLL_NAME): $(LDSCRIPT) dllfixdbg libdll.a $(VERSION_OFILES) $(LIBSERVER)\
 	$(newlib_build)/libc/libc.a \
 	-lgcc -lkernel32 -lntdll -Wl,-Map,cygwin.map
 
-$(DBG_DLL_NAME): $(PRE_DLL_NAME)
-	$(AM_V_GEN)$(srcdir)/dllfixdbg $(OBJDUMP) $(OBJCOPY) $(PRE_DLL_NAME) $(DBG_DLL_NAME)
-
-$(NEW_DLL_NAME): $(PRE_DLL_NAME) $(DBG_DLL_NAME)
-	$(AM_V_GEN)ln -f $(PRE_DLL_NAME) $@
+$(DBG_DLL_NAME) $(NEW_DLL_NAME): $(PRE_DLL_NAME)
+	$(AM_V_GEN)$(srcdir)/dllfixdbg $(OBJDUMP) $(OBJCOPY) $(PRE_DLL_NAME) $(DBG_DLL_NAME) $(NEW_DLL_NAME)
 
 # cygwin import library
 toolopts=--cpu=@target_cpu@ --ar=@AR@ --as=@AS@ --nm=@NM@ --objcopy=@OBJCOPY@
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dllfixdbg b/winsup/cygwin/dllfixdbg
index 1ae64a1ef..e9e35aed1 100755
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dllfixdbg
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dllfixdbg
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ my $strip = $ARGV[0] eq '-s';
 shift if $strip;
 my $objdump = shift;
 my @objcopy = ((shift));
-my $dll = shift;
-my $dbg = shift;
-xit 0, @objcopy, '-R', '.gnu_debuglink_overlay', '--add-gnu-debuglink=/dev/null', '--only-keep-debug', $dll, $dbg;
-xit 0, @objcopy, '-g', '--keep-section=.gnu_debuglink_overlay', '--add-gnu-debuglink=' . $dbg, $dll;
-open(OBJDUMP, '-|', "$objdump --headers $dll");
+my $pre_dll = shift;
+my $dbg_dll = shift;
+my $new_dll = shift;
+my $verbose = shift;
+xit 0, @objcopy, '-R', '.gnu_debuglink_overlay', '--add-gnu-debuglink=/dev/null', '--only-keep-debug', $pre_dll, $dbg_dll;
+xit 0, @objcopy, '-g', '--keep-section=.gnu_debuglink_overlay', '--add-gnu-debuglink=' . $dbg_dll, $pre_dll, $new_dll;
+open(OBJDUMP, '-|', "$objdump --headers $new_dll");
 my %section;
 while (<OBJDUMP>) {
     my ($idx, $name, $size, $vma, $lma, $fileoff, $algn) = /^\s*(\d+)\s+(\.\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*$/;
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ for my $k (sort {$section{$a}{-idx} <=> $section{$b}{-idx}} keys %section) {
 }
 
 warn "$0: ERROR final VMA (" . sprintf("0x%08x", $vma) . ") not on 64K boundary\n" if $vma != align($vma, 64 * 1024);
-push(@objcopy, $dll, @ARGV);
+push(@objcopy, $new_dll, @ARGV);
 xit 1, @objcopy;
 sub align {
     my $n = $_[0];