[pypy-commit] pypy default: document the get_config_vars differences

[mattip]

Author: Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com>
Branch: 
Changeset: r88392:f3538b9e04af
Date: 2016-11-15 19:41 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/f3538b9e04af/

Log:	document the get_config_vars differences

diff --git a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst
@@ -473,6 +473,10 @@
   time and the standard deviation, instead of the minimum, since the minimum is
   often misleading.
 
+* The ``get_config_vars`` method of ``sysconfig`` and ``distutils.sysconfig``
+  are not complete. On POSIX platforms, CPython fishes configuration variables
+  from the Makefile used to build the interpreter. PyPy should bake the values
+  in during compilation, but does not do that yet.
 
 .. _`is ignored in PyPy`: http://bugs.python.org/issue14621
 .. _`little point`: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5152.en.html