Our current minimum CMake version is 2.8. This version does not yet
allow us to use object libraries (introduced in 2.8.8) and target
include directories (introduced in 2.8.12), which are both mechanisms we
want to use to fix some specific problems. We previously were not able
to bump our CMake version to a version supporting object libraries
because Ubuntu Precise only had CMake version 2.8.7 in its repositories.
But due to Precise being end of life now, we shouldn't need to honor it
anymore. A current survey of some of the more conservative distributions
brings up the following versions of CMake:

- CentOS 5: 2.6.2
- CentOS 6: 2.8.12.2
- Debian 7: 2.8.11
- Fedora 23: 3.3.2
- OpenSUSE 13.2: 3.0.2
- Ubuntu Precise: 2.8.7
- Ubuntu Trusty: 2.8.12

The only two outliers here are CentOS 5 and Ubuntu Precise. CentOS is
currently unsupported due to our minimum version being 2.8 and Ubuntu
Precise is not maintained anymore. So the next smallest version
supported by all major distributions is 2.8.11. While this does not yet
support target include directories, it at least enables us to use object
libraries. So this becomes our new minimum required version.