-With the author's permission, SimGear now bundles MetaKit.
+For your convenience (and with the author's permission) a copy of the
+MetaKit source is bundled with SimGear in $(top_srcdir)/src-libs/.
+You must have metakit installed before you can build SimGear.
-Important build note:
+- Most linux distributions have a metakit package. For linux
+ developers, we recommend ysou install your distributions package
+ rather than building from source.
+
+- For developers on most other platforms, you will have to build
+ metakit from source and install it yourself. For your convenience a
+ tar ball of the metakit source is included with the simgear source
+ distribution. Untar the metakit source, and follow the included
+ build and installation instructions.
+
+Once metakit is installed you can return to configuring and building
+Simgear.
+
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+
+Potentially important build note:
Later on when you are linking programs with -lmk4 (i.e. FlightGear or one
of it's associated programs) if you come across an error similar to the