[project @ 2002-04-22 14:24:55 by simonmar]

Doc --force.

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
index a4fbd65..a014b3f 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
@@ -297,6 +297,17 @@
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term><option>&ndash;&ndash;force</option></term>
+         <indexterm><primary><option>&ndash;&ndash;force</option></primary></indexterm>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>Causes <literal>ghc-pkg</literal> to ignore missing
+           directories and libraries when adding a package, and just
+           go ahead and add it anyway.  This might be useful if your
+           package installation system needs to add the package to
+           GHC before building and installing the files.</para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
 
       <para>When modifying the configuration file