diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1da25232..f2959782 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ option(SPDLOG_BUILD_EXAMPLE "Build example" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
 option(SPDLOG_BUILD_EXAMPLE_HO "Build header only example" OFF)
 
 # testing options
-option(SPDLOG_BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
-option(SPDLOG_BUILD_TESTS_HO "Build tests using the header only version" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
+# option(SPDLOG_BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
+# option(SPDLOG_BUILD_TESTS_HO "Build tests using the header only version" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
 
 # bench options
 option(SPDLOG_BUILD_BENCH "Build benchmarks (Requires https://github.com/google/benchmark.git to be installed)" OFF)
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ option(SPDLOG_SANITIZE_ADDRESS "Enable address sanitizer in tests" OFF)
 
 # install options
 option(SPDLOG_INSTALL "Generate the install target" ${SPDLOG_MASTER_PROJECT})
-option(SPDLOG_FMT_EXTERNAL "Use external fmt library instead of bundled" OFF)
+option(SPDLOG_FMT_EXTERNAL "Use external fmt library instead of bundled" ON)
 option(SPDLOG_FMT_EXTERNAL_HO "Use external fmt header-only library instead of bundled" OFF)
 option(SPDLOG_NO_EXCEPTIONS "Compile with -fno-exceptions. Call abort() on any spdlog exceptions" OFF)
 
diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index ea050359..203298cc 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS+= --no-builtin-rules
 
 .PHONY: setup show all test lcov install check format clean distclean
 
-PROJECT_NAME:=$(shell basename $${PWD})
+# PROJECT_NAME:=$(shell basename $${PWD})
+PROJECT_NAME:=spdlog
 
 ##################################################
 # begin of config part
@@ -29,15 +30,15 @@ CHECKS?='-*,cppcoreguidelines-*,-cppcoreguidelines-macro-usage'
 
 # prevent hard config of find_package(asio 1.14.1 CONFIG CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_BOTH)
 ifeq (NO${CROSS_COMPILE},NO)
-    CC:=/opt/local/bin/clang
-    CXX:=/opt/local/bin/clang++
+    CC:=/opt/local/bin/gcc
+    CXX:=/opt/local/bin/g++
 
     # NOTE: Do not uses with DESTDIR! CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX?=/
     DESTDIR?=/tmp/staging/$(PROJECT_NAME)
     export DESTDIR
 
     CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX?=/usr/local
-    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH?="${DESTDIR}/${CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX};/opt/local;/usr"
+    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH?="${DESTDIR}/${CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX};/usr/local;/opt/local;/usr"
 else
     CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX?=/tmp/staging/${CROSS_COMPILE}$(PROJECT_NAME)
     CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH?="${CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX}"
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ setup: $(BUILD_DIR) .clang-tidy compile_commands.json
       -DUSE_LCOV=$(USE_LOCV) -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) \
       -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH) \
       -DCMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX=$(CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX) \
-	    -DSPDLOG_BUILD_EXAMPLE_HO=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+      -DSPDLOG_BUILD_EXAMPLE_HO=off -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
       -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=${CC} -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=${CXX} $(CURDIR)
 	touch $@
 
diff --git a/example/CMakeLists.txt b/example/CMakeLists.txt
index 458ca952..e4d73c96 100644
--- a/example/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/example/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright(c) 2019 spdlog authors
 # Distributed under the MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
 project(spdlog_examples CXX)
 
 if(NOT TARGET spdlog)
     # Stand-alone build
+    include(../cmake/utils.cmake)
     find_package(spdlog REQUIRED)
 endif()