[Users] Git builds of 3.18.0 broken

[Paul]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:40:30 +0100
Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote: 

>  mode change 100755 => 100644 autogen.sh
>  mode change 100755 => 100644 config/test-driver
>  mode change 100755 => 100644 tools/check-appstream.sh
>  mode change 100755 => 100644 tools/claws.get.tlds.pl
>  mode change 100755 => 100644 tools/gitlog2changelog.py


Looks like a local problem. Have a look at the git filemode setting,
probably/possibly this is your problem.

Here, in the c-m git tree, I do this:

$ git config --get core.filemode
true

My guess is that you will get 'false' as the result.

with regards

Paul