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Modules: Remove paths already set as global paths

Christian Pfeiffer requested to merge ChrisTX/cmake:hardcoded-path-removal into master

Many modules have legacy hardcoded paths including /usr or /usr/local or specific subpaths thereof. This patch removes the paths already given in UnixPaths.cmake and replaces other occurences by PATH_SUFFIXES approaches.

Not only does this cause the modules to search pathes in a consistent fashion, but it also enables us to not use a different directory in the place of /usr/local. On BSD platforms, such as OpenBSD or FreeBSD, it is necessary to search $LOCALBASE instead of /usr/local - and by using PATH_SUFFIXES, we can ensure that by replacing /usr/local in CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATHS the directory given as $LOCALBASE is being searched as if it were /usr/local.

Issue: #17492

Edited by Christian Pfeiffer

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