[mythtv] Settings.pro autodetection for myth plugins

[Ian Forde]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:09 -0500, Jeremiah Morris wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:48 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 07:37 pm, nigel at ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> >> Long term goal should probably be to use configure generated
> >> files (e.g. config.mak) everywhere, but maybe for now it
> >> would be better to put that CPU specific stuff into its own
> >> .pro file (e.g. mythtv/cpusettings.pro), and include it from
> >> all the settings.pro files?
> >
> > Can't guarantee where the mythtv sources are.
> 
> Since the plugins require that mythtv be installed first, you can 
> guarantee the location of the share files.  Mythtv could install a 
> customsettings.pro file in $PREFIX/share/mythtv during the "make 
> install". Then the plugins could use that to find out the original 
> MythTV compilation flags, and cut down on redundant or incompatible 
> configurations.

Now *that* sounds pretty nice.  But until someone writes that, does my
patch go in for now? ;)

	-Ian