[Interest] Qt 6.5.4-LTS from source -> fatal: Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'qt5compat'

[Nuno Santos]

It seems that the same happens for qtshadertools:

fatal: Unable to find current revision in submodule path ‘qtshadertools'

> On 6 Feb 2024, at 15:02, Nuno Santos <nuno.santos at imaginando.pt> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While trying to build Qt 6 from source I’m having this error while initialising the necessary modulates with the following line:
> 
> ➜  tqtc-qt5 git:(v6.5.4-lts) perl init-repository --module-subset=qt5compat,qtbase,qtdeclarative,qtimageformats,qtmultimedia,qtshadertools,qtsvg,qtwebsockets
> 
> 
> fatal: Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'qt5compat'
> git submodule update --force --no-fetch exited with status 32768 at init-repository line 207.
> 	Qt::InitRepository::exe(Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x122808bd8), "git", "submodule", "update", "--force", "--no-fetch") called at init-repository line 452
> 	Qt::InitRepository::git_clone_all_submodules(Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x122808bd8), "tqtc-qt5", 0, "", "qt5compat", "qtbase", "qtdeclarative", "qtimageformats", ...) called at init-repository line 674
> 	Qt::InitRepository::run(Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x122808bd8)) called at init-repository line 685
> 
> Does anyone know how to overcome this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nuno