[BUG] error: pathspec 'v14.0' did not match any file(s) known to git

[EvanCarroll]

Getting an error when I copy-paste commands,

$ git -C pa/ checkout v`pkg-config libpulse --modversion|sed 's/[^0-9.]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/'`
error: pathspec 'v14.0' did not match any file(s) known to git

This can be fixed with,

$ git submodule sync --recursive

After the submodule init to ensure that if already initialized, that the submodules are still in sync.

[ZLima12]

If you solved your issue, why not share how you did it? That way, others who have the same issue will be able to solve it as well.

[EvanCarroll]

Because I'm not sure of what actually solved the problem @ZLima12. I isolated the problem to having an out of date submodule. That could be fixed by removing the pa/ directory and rerunning --init on it. I think you can also run git submodule sync --recursive. I don't know that either of these made it work though, upon building I was getting (from journalctl --user /usr/bin/pulseaudio)

pulseaudio[2523]: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.ofono was not provided by any .service files

and also,

pulseaudio[147717]: Assertion 'h' failed at pulsecore/hashmap.c:138, function pa_hashmap_put(). Aborting.

So alas I removed the pa/ directory rebuilt the whole thing and restarted. It works now, though I still get the above org.ofono message. but it's working the ldac codec works.

The documentation should be updated such that it doesn't require a clone each time, but I'm unsure how to do it. Documentation improvements should be to run git clone --recurse-submodules, rather than a git submodule --init. Then we should have instructions to do git submodule sync --recursive, but with all that I was not able to confirm that it would fix my problem (though it should have worked). And now I can't recreate it.