[CC8] Unit test fixed; fixes needed for Perl 5.26

[smuzaffar]

PR description:

Unit test in CC8 IBs is failing with error [a]. CC8 contains a newer version of PERL 5.26 which fails if an array is not passed to shift function.

[a]

mps_split.pl CMSSW_11_0_X_2019-11-13-2300/tmp/2019-11-14_06.22.11.046735392_27535/MPproduction/dummy_input_file_list.txt 1 5 > jobData/job001/theSplit
Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at CMSSW_11_0_X_2019-11-11-2300/bin/cc8_amd64_gcc8/mps_split.pl line 26, near "ARGV)"

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

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[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-28400/12764

• This PR adds an extra 16KB to repository

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The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-run-pr-tests/3487/console Started: 2019/11/14 19:15

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for master.

It involves the following packages:

Alignment/MillePedeAlignmentAlgorithm

@christopheralanwest, @tocheng, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @tlampen, @pohsun can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mschrode, @mmusich, @adewit, @tocheng, @tlampen this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @slava77, @fabiocos you are the release manager for this.

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[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: ae5a58b
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Comparison is ready
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Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 2 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 34
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2936360
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 2
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2936017
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 341
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 33 files compared)
• Checked 147 log files, 16 edm output root files, 34 DQM output files

[tlampen]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @davidlange6, @slava77, @smuzaffar, @fabiocos (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[fabiocos]

+1