Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile.target: set icon for binary file on Mac OS X

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 19 February 2015 at 18:56, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 18/02/2015 22:09, Programmingkid wrote:
>> +     # Take an image and make the image its own icon:
>> +     sips -i ../pc-bios/qemu-nsis.ico
>> +     # Extract the icon to its own resource file:
>> +     DeRez -only icns ../pc-bios/qemu-nsis.ico > tmpicns.rsrc
>
> IIUC sips modifies ../pc-bios/qemu-nsis.ico (adding a resource fork?),
> so it's not possible to put it in Makefile.target.  If "sips" is invoked
> twice by two different recursive invocations of Makefile.target, bad
> things can happen.
>
> I think we can simply distribute tmpicns.rsrc as pc-bios/qemu.rsrc instead.

Why not just use the sips --out option to specify a different
output file? That way we automatically put the current icon
into the executable, and don't have to update a hand-created
qemu.rsrc file in git if we change the icon in future (and I
bet if we don't have the rules for doing this in the makefile
then nobody will remember how to do it).

As a bonus we don't have to keep that file full of ugly high-bit-set
characters in C comments in git :-)

-- PMM