Documenting the possibility to pass filenames to coqchk.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7a326c589..f2a46bd24 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Tactics
 - Tactic "decide equality" now able to manage constructors which
   contain proofs.
 
+Checker
+
+- The checker now accepts filenames in addition to logical paths.
+
 Changes from 8.7+beta2 to 8.7.0
 ===============================
 
diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-com.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-com.tex
index 8b1fc7c8f..b4d9f60eb 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-com.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-com.tex
@@ -299,8 +299,9 @@ The following command-line options are recognized by the commands {\tt
 
 \section{Compiled libraries checker ({\tt coqchk})}
 
-The {\tt coqchk} command takes a list of library paths as argument.
-The corresponding compiled libraries (.vo files) are searched in the
+The {\tt coqchk} command takes a list of library paths as argument, described
+either by their logical name or by their physical filename, which must end in
+{\tt .vo}. The corresponding compiled libraries (.vo files) are searched in the
 path, recursively processing the libraries they depend on. The content
 of all these libraries is then type-checked. The effect of {\tt
   coqchk} is only to return with normal exit code in case of success,
diff --git a/man/coqchk.1 b/man/coqchk.1
index 76a7cfc5d..a00914eab 100644
--- a/man/coqchk.1
+++ b/man/coqchk.1
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ library was not found, corrupted content, type-checking failure, etc.
 
 .IR modules \&
 is a list of modules to be checked. Modules can be referred to by a
-short or qualified name.
+short or qualified logical name, or by their filename.
 
 .SH OPTIONS