cmake: bump minimum version to 2.8.11
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.
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