Improved xml toolfile and automatically add the tool name, version and install path

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This cleans up the scram toolfile definition. No more @TOOL_BASE@ or @TOOL_ROOT@ in tool files. when these toolfiles are generated then now we add < tool path="%i"...> which then scram can use to set the UpperCaseTool_BASE (mostly used by cmssw build rules) and $TOOL_BASE. We now can use $TOOL_BASE within the toolfile to refer to the installation path of the tool

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please test using full cmssw

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A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar for branch IB/CMSSW_17_0_X/master.

@akritkbehera, @iarspider, @raoatifshad, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@missirol, @mmusich this is something you requested to watch as well.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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Pull request #10518 was updated.

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please test using full cmssw

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-1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7e2cd3/52938/summary.html
COMMIT: cec8088
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_X_2026-04-29-1100/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/10518/52938/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

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Pull request #10518 was updated.

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please test using full cmssw

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+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7e2cd3/52952/summary.html
COMMIT: 01ceb82
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_X_2026-04-29-1100/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/10518/52952/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 170 lines from the logs
• ROOTFileChecks: Some differences in event products or their sizes found
• Reco comparison results: 9 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 53
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4186963
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 25
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4186918
• 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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enable gpu

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please test

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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 IB/CMSSW_17_0_X/master IBs after it passes the integration tests. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)