diff --git a/fuzzing/README.md b/fuzzing/README.md
index c8c4a9340ea5..cbdb2b1628d6 100644
--- a/fuzzing/README.md
+++ b/fuzzing/README.md
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ It has found bugs:
 - [fmt github #1127](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/issues/1127)
 
 Unfortunately one has to limit the maximum memory allocation, otherwise
-the fuzzing will soon interrupt after trying to allocate many GB of memory. That is why the submodule
-does not point to upstream fmt, but instead to a [branch in fmt fork](https://github.com/pauldreik/fmt/tree/fuzz) which introduces the nice blocks like:
+the fuzzing will soon interrupt after trying to allocate many GB of memory.
+Therefore, the code includes blocks like:
 ```cpp
 #ifdef FUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION
 if(spec.precision>100000) {
@@ -18,50 +18,6 @@ if(spec.precision>100000) {
 ```
 This macro is the defacto standard for making fuzzing practically possible, see [the libFuzzer documentation](https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html#fuzzer-friendly-build-mode).
 
+To do a variety of builds making sure the build system works as intended,
+execute ```./build.sh```.
 
-With afl, reaches about 3000 iterations per second on a single core.
-With libFuzzer, about 200000.
-
-# AFL
-Building with afl and undefined behaviour sanitizer:
-```sh
-mkdir build-afl-ubsan
-cd build-afl-ubsan
-CXX=afl-g++ CXXFLAGS="-fsanitize=undefined" cmake .. -Dreproduce_mode=on
-make
-```
-
-corpus minimization:
-```sh
-afl-cmin  -i lots/of/files/ -o corpus/ -- ./reproducer_fuzz_two_args @@
-```
-
-fuzzing:
-```sh
-export UBSAN_OPTIONS=abort_on_error=1
-afl-fuzz -i corpus -o out -- ./reproducer_fuzz_two_args @@
-```
-
-# libFuzzer
-
-## with sanitizers
-
-```sh
-mkdir build-libfuzzer-sanitizers
-cd build-libfuzzer-sanitizers/
-CXX=clang++ CXXFLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined -O3" cmake .. -Dreproduce_mode=off
-make
-mkdir out
-./fuzzer_fuzz_two_args out corpus
-```
-
-## plain (good for speed, corpus exploration)
-
-```sh
-mkdir build-libfuzzer-plain
-cd build-libfuzzer-plain/
-CXX=clang++ CXXFLAGS="-O3" cmake .. -Dreproduce_mode=off
-make
-mkdir -p out corpus
-./fuzzer_fuzz_two_args out corpus
-```
diff --git a/fuzzing/build.sh b/fuzzing/build.sh
index f209792a8d02..fc11132fc43a 100755
--- a/fuzzing/build.sh
+++ b/fuzzing/build.sh
@@ -53,5 +53,20 @@ cmake $root -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
 cmake --build $builddir
 
 
+#builds fuzzers for local fuzzing with afl
+builddir=$here/build-fuzzers-afl
+mkdir -p $builddir
+cd $builddir
+CXX="afl-g++" \
+CXXFLAGS="-DFUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION=1 -fsanitize=address,undefined" \
+cmake $root -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
+-DFMT_DOC=Off \
+-DFMT_TEST=Off \
+-DFMT_FUZZ=On \
+-DFMT_FUZZ_LINKMAIN=On
+
+cmake --build $builddir
+
+
 echo $me: all good