Minor build-system cleanups
Squash a couple of minor annoyances:
- bump the cmake requirement 2.8.11 -> 2.8.12 (released in 2013) - avoid deprecation warning
- remove explicit python3 search - fleshed out from larger commit by Simon
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Squash a couple of minor annoyances: