Remove the slirp submodule (i.e. compile only with an external libslirp)

Since QEMU 7.1 we don't support Ubuntu 18.04 anymore, so the last big
important Linux distro that did not have a pre-packaged libslirp has
been dismissed. All other major distros seem to have a libslirp package
in their distribution already - according to repology.org:

          Fedora 35: 4.6.1
  CentOS 8 (RHEL-8): 4.4.0
          Debian 11: 4.4.0
 OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 4.3.1
   Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 4.1.0
      FreeBSD Ports: 4.7.0
      NetBSD pkgsrc: 4.7.0
           Homebrew: 4.7.0
        MSYS2 mingw: 4.7.0

The only one that was still missing a libslirp package is OpenBSD - but
the next version (OpenBSD 7.2 which will be shipped in October) is going
to include a libslirp package. Since QEMU 7.2 will be published after
OpenBSD 7.2, we should be fine there, too.

So there is no real urgent need for keeping the slirp submodule in
the QEMU tree anymore. Thus let's drop the slirp submodule now and
rely on the libslirp packages from the distributions instead.

Message-Id: <20220824151122.704946-7-thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
index 359b04e0e6..c68ba32ce2 100644
--- a/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
+++ b/scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ meson_options_help() {
   printf "%s\n" '  --enable-qom-cast-debug  cast debugging support'
   printf "%s\n" '  --enable-rng-none        dummy RNG, avoid using /dev/(u)random and'
   printf "%s\n" '                           getrandom()'
-  printf "%s\n" '  --enable-slirp[=CHOICE]  Whether and how to find the slirp library'
-  printf "%s\n" '                           (choices: auto/disabled/enabled/internal/system)'
   printf "%s\n" '  --enable-strip           Strip targets on install'
   printf "%s\n" '  --enable-tcg-interpreter TCG with bytecode interpreter (slow)'
   printf "%s\n" '  --enable-trace-backends=CHOICES'
@@ -141,6 +139,7 @@ meson_options_help() {
   printf "%s\n" '  sdl-image       SDL Image support for icons'
   printf "%s\n" '  seccomp         seccomp support'
   printf "%s\n" '  selinux         SELinux support in qemu-nbd'
+  printf "%s\n" '  slirp           libslirp user mode network backend support'
   printf "%s\n" '  slirp-smbd      use smbd (at path --smbd=*) in slirp networking'
   printf "%s\n" '  smartcard       CA smartcard emulation support'
   printf "%s\n" '  snappy          snappy compression support'
@@ -386,7 +385,6 @@ _meson_option_parse() {
     --disable-selinux) printf "%s" -Dselinux=disabled ;;
     --enable-slirp) printf "%s" -Dslirp=enabled ;;
     --disable-slirp) printf "%s" -Dslirp=disabled ;;
-    --enable-slirp=*) quote_sh "-Dslirp=$2" ;;
     --enable-slirp-smbd) printf "%s" -Dslirp_smbd=enabled ;;
     --disable-slirp-smbd) printf "%s" -Dslirp_smbd=disabled ;;
     --enable-smartcard) printf "%s" -Dsmartcard=enabled ;;