make fails on Ubuntu 16.10: Unsupported ffmpeg version, most recent version supported is 2.8

[GijsTimmers]

$ git rev-parse HEAD
42874bc6f5b479ebf9c103627112953fb44ab0ec
$ make              
./config.status --recheck
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --no-create --no-recursion
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for fpc... fpc
checking for fpcmake... fpcmake
checking version of fpc... [3.0.0]
checking whether the Free Pascal Compiler works... yes
checking whether the Free Pascal Compiler can link... yes
checking whether FPC supports -k"-z noexecstack"... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libpng12... no
checking for libpng >= 1.2... yes
checking version of libpng... [1.6.25]
checking for sdl2... yes
checking for SDL2_image... yes
checking for freetype2... yes
checking for sqlite3... yes
checking for lua5.3... no
checking for lua5.2... yes
checking version of lua... [5.2.0]
checking for libavcodec... yes
checking version of libavcodec... [57.24.102]
checking for avcodec_decode_audio in -lavcodec... no
checking for avcodec_decode_audio2 in -lavcodec... no
checking for img_convert in -lavcodec... no
checking for libavformat... yes
checking version of libavformat... [57.25.100]
checking for libavutil... yes
checking version of libavutil... [55.17.103]
checking version of ffmpeg... configure: error: 

Unsupported ffmpeg version, most recent version supported is 2.8.

Makefile:203: recipe for target 'config.status' failed
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
$

[AlexanderS]

See #181.

[basisbit]

this game is open source. Feel free to fix the issue, or kick the maintainer of the debian/ubuntu ffmpeg package to not just use cutting edge / few weeks old version with recently changed API, but instead to also offer some "legacy" version. Just posting a log is not helpful at all. Thanks, but no thanks. please go away.

[GijsTimmers]

I don't know anything about ffmpeg nor do I know anything about ultrastar. I do think posting a log is helpful. At the very least, it will direct future users also suffering from this bug here.

Thanks, but no thanks. please go away.

No need to be rude.

[basisbit]

before simply just posting a configure log, which even tells you what your problem is, you could have at least looked at the issue list.