diff --git a/configure b/configure
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2558,6 +2558,19 @@
 
 # Make sure both the driver and runtime are found
 #
+longerror='
+********************************************************************************
+
+The configuration process failed to locate your CUDA installation. Ensure that
+you have installed the driver and developer toolkit, available from:
+
+  http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html
+
+Then make sure that "nvcc" is available in your PATH, or set the appropriate
+directories with --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs.
+
+********************************************************************************'
+
 ac_ext=c
 ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
 ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
@@ -4014,8 +4027,8 @@
 _ACEOF
 
 else
-  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA headers" >&5
-echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA headers" >&2;}
+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA headers${longerror}" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA headers${longerror}" >&2;}
    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
 fi
 
@@ -4103,8 +4116,8 @@
   test "$ac_res" = "none required" || LIBS="$ac_res $LIBS"
 
 else
-  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA driver library" >&5
-echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA driver library" >&2;}
+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA driver library${longerror}" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA driver library${longerror}" >&2;}
    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
 fi
 
@@ -4190,8 +4203,8 @@
   test "$ac_res" = "none required" || LIBS="$ac_res $LIBS"
 
 else
-  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA runtime library" >&5
-echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA runtime library" >&2;}
+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not find CUDA runtime library${longerror}" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: could not find CUDA runtime library${longerror}" >&2;}
    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
 fi
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -41,9 +41,22 @@
 
 # Make sure both the driver and runtime are found
 #
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS([cuda.h cuda_runtime_api.h], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA headers)])
-AC_SEARCH_LIBS(cuDriverGetVersion,    cuda,   [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA driver library)])
-AC_SEARCH_LIBS(cudaRuntimeGetVersion, cudart, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA runtime library)])
+longerror='
+********************************************************************************
+
+The configuration process failed to locate your CUDA installation. Ensure that
+you have installed the driver and developer toolkit, available from:
+
+  http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html
+
+Then make sure that "nvcc" is available in your PATH, or set the appropriate
+directories with --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs.
+
+********************************************************************************'
+
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([cuda.h cuda_runtime_api.h], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA headers${longerror})])
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(cuDriverGetVersion,    cuda,   [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA driver library${longerror})])
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(cudaRuntimeGetVersion, cudart, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find CUDA runtime library${longerror})])
 
 # Populate the buildinfo, with the search paths and any target specific options
 #
diff --git a/cuda.cabal b/cuda.cabal
--- a/cuda.cabal
+++ b/cuda.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                   cuda
-Version:                0.3.2.1
+Version:                0.3.2.2
 Synopsis:               FFI binding to the CUDA interface for programming NVIDIA GPUs
 Description:
     The CUDA library provides a direct, general purpose C-like SPMD programming