added support to build herwig7 and thepeg in debug mode

[smuzaffar]

Added support for build herwig7 and thepeg in debug mode

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar for branch IB/CMSSW_16_1_X/clang.

@akritkbehera, @cmsbuild, @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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cms-bot internal usage

[smuzaffar]

please test with cms-sw/cms-bot#2703

[smuzaffar]

+externals

Good to go in clang ibs

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_16_1_X/clang 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)
Notice This PR was tested with additional Pull Request(s), please also merge them if necessary: cms-sw/cms-bot#2703

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+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-570dea/51903/summary.html
COMMIT: c8ae5e5
CMSSW: CMSSW_16_1_CLANG_X_2026-03-10-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/10410/51903/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 299 lines to the logs
• ROOTFileChecks: Some differences in event products or their sizes found
• Reco comparison results: 104529 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 53
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4181048
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 531698
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 345
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3648985
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 27194.470999999994 KiB( 52 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 10224.0 ): -0.171 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 13034.0 ): 1.470 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 17034.0 ): 3.847 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 18434.0,... ): 6798.982 KiB HLT/JME
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 18634.0 ): -3.364 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0010001 ): -0.004 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0020001,... ): -0.008 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0040001 ): 0.027 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0050001 ): 0.016 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 2024.0060001 ): -0.035 KiB JetMET/SUSYDQM
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 250202.181 ): ...
• Checked 227 log files, 198 edm output root files, 53 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 22 / 51 workflows