Remove Photos 215.5, Tauola 27.121.5

[iarspider]

Split from #7763

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @iarspider for branch IB/CMSSW_12_4_X/devel.

@cmsbuild, @smuzaffar, @aandvalenzuela, @iarspider can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.
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[cmsbuild]

Pull request #7807 was updated.

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #7807 was updated.

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #7807 was updated.

[smuzaffar]

please test

[smuzaffar]

test parameters:

• full_cmssw = true

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

-1

Failed Tests: Build
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-8516e5/24161/summary.html
COMMIT: 9b375e4
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_4_DEVEL_X_2022-04-22-2300/slc7_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7807/24161/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:

• @Dr15Jones Fix incorrect cast in SiStripGainsPCLHarvester cmssw#37660
• @dzuolo BeamSpot DQM clients modified to log to onlineDB only when beam status from TCDS is STABLE cmssw#37614
• @cms-sw updated ROCm tools #7815

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-8516e5/24161/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-8516e5/24161/git-merge-result

Build

I found compilation error when building:

/data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/slc7_amd64_gcc10/external/gcc/10.3.0-84898dea653199466402e67d73657f10/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: PhotosInterface.cc:(.text+0x29fe): undefined reference to `hepevt_'
/data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/slc7_amd64_gcc10/external/gcc/10.3.0-84898dea653199466402e67d73657f10/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: tmp/slc7_amd64_gcc10/src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins/PhotosInterfaceDefault/PhotosInterface.cc.o: in function `HepMC::HEPEVT_Wrapper::byte_num_to_double(unsigned int)':
PhotosInterface.cc:(.text._ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper18byte_num_to_doubleEj[_ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper18byte_num_to_doubleEj]+0x138): undefined reference to `hepevt_'
/data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/slc7_amd64_gcc10/external/gcc/10.3.0-84898dea653199466402e67d73657f10/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: PhotosInterface.cc:(.text._ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper18byte_num_to_doubleEj[_ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper18byte_num_to_doubleEj]+0x153): undefined reference to `hepevt_'
/data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/testBuildDir/slc7_amd64_gcc10/external/gcc/10.3.0-84898dea653199466402e67d73657f10/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: tmp/slc7_amd64_gcc10/src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins/PhotosInterfaceDefault/PhotosInterface.cc.o:PhotosInterface.cc:(.text._ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper15byte_num_to_intEj[_ZN5HepMC14HEPEVT_Wrapper15byte_num_to_intEj]+0xa3): more undefined references to `hepevt_' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [tmp/slc7_amd64_gcc10/src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins/PhotosInterfaceDefault/libPhotosInterfaceDefault.so] Error 1
Leaving library rule at src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins
Entering library rule at src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins
>> Compiling edm plugin /data/cmsbld/jenkins/workspace/ib-run-pr-tests/CMSSW_12_4_DEVEL_X_2022-04-22-2300/src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins/PhotosppInterface.cc
>> Building  edm plugin tmp/slc7_amd64_gcc10/src/GeneratorInterface/PhotosInterface/plugins/PhotosppInterface/libPhotosppInterface.so


[perrotta]

+1

• This should have been tested with #37616
• The cumulative test succeeds in Drop PhotosInterface, support for tauola 27.x from TauolaInterface cmssw#37616 (comment)

[perrotta]

merge