[BuildRules] Improved build rules for generating edm plugin cache

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backport of #10833

it also contains changes from #10839

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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_20_1_X/master.

@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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• Backported from [DEVEL] Improved build rules for gpu back plugins #10833

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Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a6b1e0/55775/summary.html
COMMIT: 11bda56
CMSSW: CMSSW_20_1_X_2026-09-09-1100/el9_amd64_gcc14
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/10843/55775/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 174 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 4 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 45
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3592269
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 90
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3592161
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 18
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 44 files compared)
• Checked 195 log files, 163 edm output root files, 45 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

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please test using full cmssw

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Pull request #10843 was updated.

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-1

Failed Tests: UnitTests
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a6b1e0/55781/summary.html
COMMIT: ce594a9
CMSSW: CMSSW_20_1_X_2026-09-09-2300/el9_amd64_gcc14
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/10843/55781/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:

• @alexstrel Added dictionaries to fix unnecessary runtime autoparsing cmssw#51761
• @Parsifal-2045 Make dqm-plot overlay option and bin labelling more flexible cmssw#51790
• @Dr15Jones Specialize WorkerManagers for transition cmssw#51809
• @DickyChant [FastSIM] Introducing Support for CloseByParticleGun production (for Calorimeter) cmssw#51830
• @smuzaffar [TICL] Cleanup plugins/BuildFile.xml to fix scram duplicate dependency warning cmssw#51845

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a6b1e0/55781/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a6b1e0/55781/git-merge-result

Failed Unit Tests

I found 10 errors in the following unit tests:

---> test CondToolsLHCInfoAnalyzerTest had ERRORS
---> test CondToolsPrintLHCInfoPerPayloads had ERRORS
---> test testmat had ERRORS
and more ...

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 167 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 4 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 45
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3592269
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 43
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3592208
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 18
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 44 files compared)
• Checked 195 log files, 163 edm output root files, 45 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

Max Memory Comparisons exceeding threshold

@cms-sw/core-l2 , I found 8 workflow step(s) with memory usage exceeding the error threshold:

Expand to see workflows ...

• Error: Workflow 1001.0_RunMinBias2011A step8 max memory diff -83.6 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 1001.0_RunMinBias2011A step3 max memory diff -84.9 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 2025.0000002_RunZeroBias2025B_10k step3 max memory diff -680.8 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 2025.0000002_RunZeroBias2025B_10k step2 max memory diff -676.4 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 2025.0010001_RunJetMET02025C_10k step2 max memory diff -676.3 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 2025.0010001_RunJetMET02025C_10k step3 max memory diff -645.7 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 18434.0_TTbar_14TeV+2026 step2 max memory diff -675.5 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB
• Error: Workflow 18434.0_TTbar_14TeV+2026 step3 max memory diff -640.7 exceeds +/- 30.0 MiB

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+externals

new build rules backported from DEVEL IBs

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_20_1_X/master IBs (but tests are reportedly failing). 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)