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I seem to be hitting an issue with 0.4.* revisions of the package. 'Cabal install'-ing the Hackage version of gsl-random works out fine, but then I try running a two-line program in GHCi and get this message:

Loading package gsl-random-0.4.1 ... linking ... : /usr/local/lib/gsl-random-0.4.1/ghc-6.12.1/HSgsl-random-0.4.1.o: unknown symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_' ghc: unable to load packagegsl-random-0.4.1'

GHC version is 6.12.1, I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop.

Since the same 2-liner is working fine with 0.3.1, I assume that there must be something wrong with the recent transition to Cabal and elimination of M4 scripts. Am I missing something? Is there any workaround?

I get the following error when running cabal install

/tmp/gsl-random-0.4.5-30897/gsl-random-0.4.5/Setup.lhs:28:9:
    Couldn't match expected type `ProgramSearchPath
                                  -> IO (Maybe FilePath)'
                with actual type `IO (Maybe FilePath)'
    In the return type of a call of `findProgramLocation'
    Probable cause: `findProgramLocation' is applied to too many arguments
    In the expression: findProgramLocation verbosity "gsl-config"
    In the `programFindLocation' field of a record
Failed to install gsl-random-0.4.5
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

This is fixed for me by regenerating Setup.lhs by running cabal init to make a new Setup.hs file. Pull request to follow once I've figured out how to make one

It could be very helpful if examples (like allocating RNG and generate samples from a gamma distribution) are provided with the package

There are several GSL distributions that are currently not included. Could we incorporate the remaining distributions?