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The APC had always troubles with files containing bytes with the high
bit set. Consequently t/op/regexp_unicode_prop_thr.t is now missing in
the APC. Porting/patching.pod talks about this:
=item Binary Files
Since the patch(1) utility cannot deal with binary files, it's important
that you either avoid the use of binary files in your patch, generate the
files dynamically, or that you encode any binary files using the
F<uupacktool.pl> utility.
Assuming you needed to include a gzip-encoded file for a module's test
suite, you might do this as follows using the F<uupacktool.pl> utility:
$ perl uupacktool.pl -v -p -D lib/Some/Module/t/src/t.gz
Writing lib/Some/Module/t/src/t.gz into lib/Some/Module/t/src/t.gz.packed
This will replace the C<t.gz> file with an encoded counterpart. During
C<make test>, before any tests are run, perl's Makefile will restore all
the C<.packed> files mentioned in the MANIFEST to their original name.
This means that the test suite does not need to be aware of this packing
scheme and will not need to be altered.
Rafael, do you still know how such a file can be decontaminated once
it has been added to Perforce?
--
andreas
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