When copying two symlinks using "Follow links" the output is all wrong

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When copying two symlinks (to two directories containing multiple (large) files and directories) using "Follow links" the output is all wrong. See attached files.

The directory structure is something like this:
$ ls -RF
.:
1 2
$ ls -RF
.:
01/ 02/

./01:
a/ b/

./01/a:
1 2 3@ e/ s/

./01/a/e:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

./01/a/s:
1

./01/b:
1 2 3 4 5@ a/

./01/b/a:

./02:
1 2

$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.24
Built with GLib 2.56.4
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor and Aspell support
With optional subshell support
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

$LC_MESSAGES=C mc -F
Home directory: /home/xxx
Profile root directory: /home/xxx

[System data]

Config directory: /etc/mc/
Data directory: /usr/share/mc/
File extension handlers: /usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/
VFS plugins and scripts: /usr/libexec/mc/

extfs.d: /usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/
fish: /usr/libexec/mc/fish/

[User data]

Config directory: /home/xxx/.config/mc/
Data directory: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/

skins: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/skins/
extfs.d: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
fish: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/fish/
mcedit macros: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
mcedit external macros: /home/xxx/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*

Cache directory: /home/xxx/.cache/mc/