Fail to link if there is special chars in the project path

[TechMagister]

If there is a special character in the path of the project ( like é,è ), libgit2-sys fail to link with the program. ex : /home/arnaud/workspace/Dépots/laughing-journey

It took me time to find why it suddenly stop building after adding git2 dependency.

To reproduce:

mkdir yès
cd yès
cargo new myproject
cd myproject
echo "git2 = \"0.3.3\" " >> Cargo.toml
cargo build

Here the output: error.txt

[alexcrichton]

I seem to be able to reproduce the fact that an error happens, but not quite the exact error which is happening. Can you rerun with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 and gist the result?

[TechMagister]

I hope this will help you:

cd yès
cargo new myproject
cd myproject
echo "git2 = \"0.3.3\" " >> Cargo.toml
RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo build

gist : https://gist.github.com/FerarDuanSednan/08bfc7cfe0c40a949bb5

[alexcrichton]

Ah right, so I tracked this down and found out this was b/c pkg-config printing some weird characters, so I believe that alexcrichton@4d2b771 should fix this. Thanks for the report!