--- plugins/externaltools/data/Makefile.in.orig	Thu Jan 11 00:53:33 2007
+++ plugins/externaltools/data/Makefile.in	Thu Jan 11 00:53:41 2007
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
 # (.desktop), which happens to be translated using intltool.
 $(tools_SCRIPTS): %: %.tool.in %.desktop $(TOOL_MERGE)
 	perl $(TOOL_MERGE) -o $@ $< $(word 2,$^)
-	chmod --reference=$< $@
+	chmod 0755 $@
 # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
 # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
 .NOEXPORT: