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+=================== FMIT - Free Music Instrument Tuner =========================
+
+Author: Gilles Degottex <gilles.degottex@gmail.com>
+
+Contributor: Florian Hars for the tunning scales, Arnout Engelen for the JACK issues
+Packagers: Toni Graffy and all the PackMan team ! (SuSE); Ludovic Reslinger (Debian); Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD)
+Donators: Joel Brandt, Martin Lynch, you
+Other helpful people:
+John Anderson for the microtonal module request; Scott Bahling for the request of the scales in cents; Jacob Shapiro to help me make FMIT working under Windows/Cygwin; Peter; ...
+
+======================= COMPILATION & INSTALLATION =============================
+
+To compile FMIT:
+From fmit package directory, create a directory build:
+$ mkdir build
+$ cd build
+Configure with standard options (see below for options):
+$ cmake ..
+
+Then as usual:
+Compile
+$ make
+and install as root
+# make install
+
+---------------------- For non-standard compilation ----------------------------
+check options:
+$ cmake -L ..
+To change an option, for example configure with PortAudio:
+$ cmake -D SOUNDSYSTEM_USE_PORTAUDIO=ON ..