Revert "Hopefully navigate around the availability issue with compyte"

This reverts commit 32e8611140c7af63f26497b88c9b1626262e4d4c.

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ variables:
 before_script:
 - echo "Running make concurrently with $(nproc) cores, where possibly"
 # make sure we can update submodules and apply the patches
-- git submodule foreach git reset --hard HEAD
-- git submodule foreach git clean -fdx
+- git submodule foreach --recursive git reset --hard HEAD
+- git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -fdx
 # work around https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/2148
-- git submodule sync
-- git submodule update --init
+- git submodule sync --recursive
+- git submodule update --init --recursive
 # end workaround
 - patches/apply_patches.sh
 # detect number of processors, but make sure never to run with -j"", as the