diff --git a/devel/Bear/Portfile b/devel/Bear/Portfile
index 711281146cc..fc060f5f59c 100644
--- a/devel/Bear/Portfile
+++ b/devel/Bear/Portfile
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ long_description    {*}${description} \
 patchfiles          patch-spdlog-header-only.diff
 
 set port_libfmt     libfmt10
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
 
 # Cxx 2017 needed, as of latest 3.1.x releases
diff --git a/devel/libmamba/Portfile b/devel/libmamba/Portfile
index bc3dbf6fb83..df49829fe0b 100644
--- a/devel/libmamba/Portfile
+++ b/devel/libmamba/Portfile
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ depends_build-append  \
 depends_lib-append  port:libarchive \
                     port:libfmt9
 
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/libfmt9/cmake
 
 if {${subport} eq ${name}} {
diff --git a/devel/log4cxx/Portfile b/devel/log4cxx/Portfile
index cac2e5f0813..7c474a46d19 100644
--- a/devel/log4cxx/Portfile
+++ b/devel/log4cxx/Portfile
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ checksums           rmd160  76b559445ea24468c4d70bd8690afcec261ebd99 \
                     size    667891
 
 set port_libfmt     libfmt11
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
 
 depends_build-append \
diff --git a/devel/spdlog/Portfile b/devel/spdlog/Portfile
index cc1c109eb1c..17e008f6e00 100644
--- a/devel/spdlog/Portfile
+++ b/devel/spdlog/Portfile
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ configure.args-append \
 variant fmt_external description {Use external fmt library instead of bundled} {
     patchfiles-append \
                     patch-spdlog-fmt-external.diff
-    cmake.module_path-append \
+    cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/libfmt${libfmt_ver}/cmake
     depends_lib-append \
                     port:libfmt${libfmt_ver}
diff --git a/editors/cherrytree/Portfile b/editors/cherrytree/Portfile
index b583c3d0e83..8b6498dd341 100644
--- a/editors/cherrytree/Portfile
+++ b/editors/cherrytree/Portfile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ legacysupport.use_mp_libcxx \
 set port_libfmt         libfmt9
 configure.pkg_config_path-append \
                         ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/pkgconfig
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                         ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
 configure.ldflags-append \
                         -L${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}
diff --git a/games/warzone2100/Portfile b/games/warzone2100/Portfile
index 12d13ab3853..268585243a1 100644
--- a/games/warzone2100/Portfile
+++ b/games/warzone2100/Portfile
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ if {$subport eq ${name}} {
                         size    320501020
 
     set port_libfmt     libfmt9
-    cmake.module_path-append \
+    cmake.prefix_path-append \
         ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
 
     depends_build-append    path:bin/pkg-config:pkgconfig \
diff --git a/llm/mlx/Portfile b/llm/mlx/Portfile
index f7d7caa89e9..42cf1fdf4ff 100644
--- a/llm/mlx/Portfile
+++ b/llm/mlx/Portfile
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ patchfiles          diff-CMakeLists.txt-use-system-nlohmann_json.patch \
                     diff-mlx-CMakeLists.txt-prefer-local-includes.patch
 
 set port_libfmt     libfmt12
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
 
 depends_extract-append \
diff --git a/math/Sophus/Portfile b/math/Sophus/Portfile
index 64184e98afa..f5254d7943f 100644
--- a/math/Sophus/Portfile
+++ b/math/Sophus/Portfile
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ long_description    This is a c++ implementation of Lie groups commonly used for
                     and SE(3) to represent rigid body transformations (i.e. rotations and translations) in 2d and 3d.
 
 set port_libfmt     libfmt9
-cmake.module_path-append \
+cmake.prefix_path-append \
                     ${prefix}/lib/${port_libfmt}/cmake
-                    
+
 depends_lib-append  path:share/pkgconfig/eigen3.pc:eigen3 \
                     port:${port_libfmt}