configure: automatically parse command line for meson -D options

Right now meson_options.txt lists about 90 options.  Each option
needs code in configure to parse it and pass the option down to Meson as
a -D command-line argument; in addition the default must be duplicated
between configure and meson_options.txt.  This series tries to remove
the code duplication by generating the case statement for those --enable
and --disable options, as well as the corresponding help text.

About 80% of the options can be handled completely by the new mechanism.
Eight meson options are not of the --enable/--disable kind.  Six more need
to be parsed in configure for various reasons documented in the patch,
but they still have their help automatically generated.

The advantages are:

- less code in configure

- parsing and help is more consistent (for example --enable-blobs was
  not supported)

- options are described entirely in one place, meson_options.txt.
  This make it more attractive to use Meson options instead of
  hand-crafted configure options and config-host.mak

A few options change name: --enable-tcmalloc and --enable-jemalloc
become --enable-malloc={tcmalloc,jemalloc}; --disable-blobs becomes
--disable-install-blobs; --enable-trace-backend becomes
--enable-trace-backends.  However, the old names are allowed
for backwards compatibility.

Message-Id: <20211007130829.632254-19-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 5a140af7f7..4ab4570125 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# These options do not correspond to a --enable/--disable-* option
+# on the configure script command line.  If you add more, list them in
+# scripts/meson-buildoptions.py's SKIP_OPTIONS constant too.
+
 option('qemu_suffix', type : 'string', value: 'qemu',
        description: 'Suffix for QEMU data/modules/config directories (can be empty)')
 option('docdir', type : 'string', value : 'doc',
@@ -16,6 +20,10 @@ option('fuzzing_engine', type : 'string', value : '',
 option('trace_file', type: 'string', value: 'trace',
        description: 'Trace file prefix for simple backend')
 
+# Everything else can be set via --enable/--disable-* option
+# on the configure script command line.  After adding an option
+# here make sure to run "make update-buildoptions".
+
 option('docs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
        description: 'Documentations build support')
 option('fuzzing', type : 'boolean', value: false,