# Cannot build Base: can't find file to patch
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952
**Category:** In Situ Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952 "2019-05-28T20:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/1 "2019-05-28T20:31:38Z")
Hi,
I successfully linked a code to Catalyst-v5.6.0-Base-Enable-Python-Essentials-Extras-Rendering-Base, but some writers, e.g. XMLHierarchicalBoxDataWriter and XMLUniformGridAMRWriter, are scrubbed away and not available in the catalyst editions. I am trying to build my extended edition, and to include these writers. As a first step I try to rebuild Base as it is. I made a copy of Base as myBase, and run catalyze.py, but it fails while applying patches (see below).
What do I miss here? Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ted
[ews00734@Catalyst $] python catalyze.py -r /ascldap/users/tesari/projects/paraview -i Editions/myBase/ -o ~/projects/myBase
## Processing Editions/myBase/ patching file ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/CMakeLists.txt Hunk #1 FAILED at 34. Hunk #2 FAILED at 48. Hunk #3 FAILED at 108. 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED – saving rejects to file ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/CMakeLists.txt.rej can’t find file to patch at input line 33 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:
|diff --git a/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/module.cmake b/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/module.cmake
|index f17c4df…f0db074 100644
|— a/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/module.cmake
| +++ b/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/module.cmake |
| --- |
File to patch: ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File “catalyze.py”, line 418, in
main()
File “catalyze.py”, line 413, in main
process(config)
File “catalyze.py”, line 344, in process
copy\_paths(config, manifest[‘modules’])
File “catalyze.py”, line 214, in copy\_paths
run\_patches(config, path\_entry)
File “catalyze.py”, line 151, in run\_patches
p.wait()
File “/ascldap/users/tesari/local/python-2.7.16/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 1099, in wait
pid, sts = \_eintr\_retry\_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
File “/ascldap/users/tesari/local/python-2.7.16/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 125, in \_eintr\_retry\_call
return func(\*args)
KeyboardInterrupt
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/2 "2019-05-28T20:33:05Z")
Are you using `master`? Or a released 5.6.0?
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### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/3 "2019-05-28T20:34:34Z")
I pull from [gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git](http://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git)
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/4 "2019-05-28T20:39:39Z")
`master` doesn’t support the `catalyze.py` scripts. See [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18800](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18800) for details. In the meantime, I suggest using the `release` branch to do `catalyze.py`-based builds.
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### Author:  [@tesari](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tesari)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/5 "2019-05-28T21:23:36Z")
Thanks for the info. I checkout release, but now cmake cannot
find vtkModuleAPI and vtkModuleMacros. Just to make sure, I did a
fresh clone,
```auto
git clone --recursive ParaView
cd ParaView
git pull
git submodule update --init
git checkout --track -b release origin/release
```
```
Still fails with the same error (see below). Could you advice,
```
please?
Thanks,
Ted
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:662 (include):
```
include could not find load file:
vtkModuleAPI
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:663 (include):
include could not find load file:
vtkModuleMacros
CMake Error at CMake/ParaViewModuleTop.cmake:44
```
(vtk\_add\_to\_module\_search\_path):
```
Unknown CMake command "vtk_add_to_module_search_path".
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:689 (include)
```
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/6 "2019-05-29T12:15:43Z")
The `submodule update --recursive --init` should be done after checking out ParaView’s `release` branch.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/7 "2019-06-03T12:45:43Z")
We should inform better of this, we still have too many users failing this step.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/8 "2019-06-03T13:51:54Z")
There’s code in the common-superbuild which detects out-of-date submodules. ParaView could copy it to detect it for VTK and the other submodules.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-build-base-cant-find-file-to-patch/1952/9 "2019-06-03T13:55:37Z")
This is what I had in mind, yes.