Allow tool to set its path via <tool ...path="path"/>

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please test using full cmssw

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A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar for branch SCRAMV3.

@akritkbehera, @iarspider, @raoatifshad, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a57ad8/52918/summary.html
COMMIT: 4afbb88
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_X_2026-04-27-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/SCRAM/88/52918/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @KIT-CMS Bug Fix Tau Embedding HLT information cmssw#50764
• @jfernan2 [DQM] Remove TensorFlow dependency from BuildFile.xml cmssw#50793
• @gpetruc [L1T] Propagate CTL2 Electron ID discriminator output to GT object (Phase-2) cmssw#50602
• @sakura-ngt NGT DQM online client: add monitoring of trigger candidate 4-vectors  cmssw#50811
• @fwyzard Reimplement MPI event synchronisation with async barriers cmssw#50810
• @cms-sw Update tag for DQM-Integration to V00-18-00 cmsdist#10511

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a57ad8/52918/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a57ad8/52918/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 193 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 5 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 53
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4186963
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 997
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4185946
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 52 files compared)
• Checked 227 log files, 197 edm output root files, 53 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 1 / 51 workflows

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+externals

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next SCRAMV3 IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @ftenchini, @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)