auto merge of #5433 : lucab/rust/lucab/cfgspec, r=graydon

All current meta items types (word, name-value, list) are now
properly parsed by rustc --cfg command line. Fixes #2399

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
index 66a3ae7a2ae..a133befb046 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
@@ -139,6 +139,22 @@ pub fn parse_item_from_source_str(
     maybe_aborted(p.parse_item(attrs),p)
 }
 
+pub fn parse_meta_from_source_str(
+    name: ~str,
+    source: @~str,
+    +cfg: ast::crate_cfg,
+    sess: @mut ParseSess
+) -> @ast::meta_item {
+    let p = new_parser_from_source_str(
+        sess,
+        cfg,
+        /*bad*/ copy name,
+        codemap::FssNone,
+        source
+    );
+    maybe_aborted(p.parse_meta_item(),p)
+}
+
 pub fn parse_stmt_from_source_str(
     name: ~str,
     source: @~str,