# Praxis stopped building again?
**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432
**Category:** Software Process
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432 "2020-03-23T23:42:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@johnt](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/johnt)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/1 "2020-03-23T23:42:20Z")
Is this a known issue? I remember it was discussed last week, but I cannot find any dashboard reports since March 19.
I am interested because I just hit a strange-looking error building smtk on windows. The interesting part is the error messages that state “No such file or directory” refer to files that, in fact, exist. I _think_ that there is plenty of disk space available (I am in a docker container and there is no simple powershell equivalent to “df” .)
@ben.boeckel can you advise?
```auto
make[2]: smtk/extension/paraview/server/CMakeFiles/generate_C_Users_ContainerUser_build_cmb-superbuild_superbuild_smtk_build_smtk_extension_paraview_server_VTKModelInstancePlacementSele
ction_xml.h.dir/build.make: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'smtk/extension/paraview/server/CMakeFiles/generate_C_Users_ContainerUser_build_cmb-superbuild_superbuild_smtk_build_smtk_extension_paraview_server_V
TKModelInstancePlacementSelection_xml.h.dir/build.make'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:4965: smtk/extension/paraview/server/CMakeFiles/generate_C_Users_ContainerUser_build_cmb-superbuild_superbuild_smtk_build_smtk_extension_paraview_serv
er_VTKModelInstancePlacementSelection_xml.h.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:118: all] Error 2
```
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/2 "2020-03-24T03:11:41Z")
I think this is a symptom of `make` (`nmake`?) not supporting extended Windows paths. Does `ninja` work? If not, @aron.helser has reports of the paths being too long for Visual Studio as well; that may resolve this issue here.
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### Author:  [@aron.helser](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/aron.helser)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/3 "2020-03-24T21:18:04Z")
Any chance you can switch to ninja? May be a few days before I get to the too-long-path fix.
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### Author:  [@johnt](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/johnt)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/4 "2020-03-24T21:43:28Z")
Well,
- If timing is really a **few** days, I can wait.
- But if you think this might get sidetracked past the end of next week, then yes, I will redo my docker scripts.
- Mostly FYI, I would prefer to stick with make because cmake doesn’t support fast targets with ninja.
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### Author:  [@johnt](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/johnt)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/5 "2020-03-30T14:42:20Z")
@aron.helser just checking – has there been any change in status on this?
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### Author:  [@aron.helser](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/aron.helser)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/6 "2020-03-30T16:01:55Z")
I’m planning to work on it (and hopefully finish) on Wednesday.
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### Author:  [@dcthomp](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/dcthomp)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/praxis-stopped-building-again/432/7 "2020-04-28T22:26:10Z")
I notice praxis has not submitted to cdash since April 25th… is something up?