Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64x Compiling SM5 building ffmpeg failed

So i pretty much did everything on this page, but when i got to the "./Utils/build.sh" part, this is what popped up...

Configuring ffmpeg...okay.

Building ffmpeg...failed.

Consider passing --verbose to ./Utils/build.sh. Pass --help for details.

Typing "sudo" before the "./Utils/build.sh" doesn't help either. =/ So is that Wiki outdated, or is it something in my Linux that's preventing it from working?

Consider passing --verbose to ./Utils/build.sh. Pass --help for details.
So run "Utils/build.sh --verbose" to see why building ffmpeg failed.
"sudo" wouldn't do anything because this problem has nothing to do with permissions and you shouldn't be building stepmania as root anyway.

Consider passing --verbose to ./Utils/build.sh. Pass --help for details.
"sudo" wouldn't do anything because this problem has nothing to do with permissions and you shouldn't be building stepmania as root anyway.

Well i just tried "Utils/build.sh --verbose" by itself and it wouldnt work..

Configuring ffmpeg...

./configure: 1177: ./configure: cannot create config.err: Permission denied

./configure: 1178: ./configure: cannot create config.err: Permission denied

Configuring ffmpeg...failed.

Using "sudo" before it gave me better results, but still crapped out... only thing i can gather from all that is that I'm missing some files

Configuring ffmpeg...

install prefix            /home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/_inst

source path               /home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448

C compiler                gcc

make                      make

.align is power-of-two    no

ARCH                      x86_64 (generic)

big-endian                no

MMX enabled               yes

CMOV enabled              no

CMOV is fast              no

gprof enabled             no

debug symbols             no

strip symbols             yes

optimize                  small

static                    yes

shared                    no

postprocessing support    no

software scaler enabled   no

video hooking             no

network support           no

threading support         no

SDL support               no

Sun medialib support      no

AVISynth enabled          no

liba52 support            no

liba52 dlopened           no

libdts support            no

libfaac enabled           no

libfaad enabled           no

faadbin enabled           no

libgsm enabled            no

libmp3lame enabled        no

libnut enabled            no

libogg enabled            no

libtheora enabled         no

libvorbis enabled         no

x264 enabled              no

XviD enabled              no

zlib enabled              yes

AMR-NB float support      no

AMR-NB fixed support      no

AMR-WB float support      no

AMR-WB IF2 support        no

License: LGPL

Creating config.mak and config.h...

grep: /home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/libswscale/swscale.h: No such file or directory

config.h is unchanged

Configuring ffmpeg...okay.

Building ffmpeg...

make -C libavutil   install-libs

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/libavutil'

install -d "/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/_inst/lib"

install -m 644 libavutil.a "/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/_inst/lib"

ranlib "/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/_inst/lib/libavutil.a"

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/libavutil'

make -C libavcodec  install-libs

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/libavcodec'

gcc -I"/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448"/libswscale   -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_ISOC9X_SOURCE -I"/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448" -I"/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448" -I"/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448"/libavutil -Dattribute_deprecated= -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wall -Wno-switch -Wdisabled-optimization -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-sign -Os  -c -o imgresample.o imgresample.c

imgresample.c:28:21: fatal error: swscale.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

make[1]: *** [imgresample.o] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/stepmania/ffmpeg-r8448/libavcodec'

make: *** [install-libs] Error 2

Building ffmpeg...failed.

Consider passing --verbose to ./Utils/build.sh. Pass --help for details.
"sudo" wouldn't do anything because this problem has nothing to do with permissions and you shouldn't be building stepmania as root anyway.

Well i just tried "Utils/build.sh --verbose" by itself and it wouldnt work..

Configuring ffmpeg...

./configure: 1177: ./configure: cannot create config.err: Permission denied

./configure: 1178: ./configure: cannot create config.err: Permission denied

Configuring ffmpeg...failed.

This happened because you mistakenly used sudo before when you shouldn't have. When you ran "sudo build.sh", it created a config.err file that only root could write to. That's why when you ran build.sh without sudo it didn't have permission to modify that file. You should run "sudo make distclean" to clean up the junk from previous attempts at building. Then don't run build.sh as root again.

I don't actually know why ffmpeg failed to build for you. Are you using the beta3 code, or is this some older checkout?
This is what github has for the SM5-beta3 tag, and I just finished testing it on my debian machine, so I know it works for me.
I recommend "./autogen.sh &> agen.out" then "Utils/build.sh -f -r --verbose &> build.out"
The "&> foo" part redirects all the output to a file so you can read it later more easily.

Also, build.sh will be going away in the next version. The sources will include ffmpeg in the source tarball and it gets built as part of the configure && make process.

You can try this right now by checking out current git.