[un1versal]

LIBS='-lssh -lmicrohttpd -ljasper -lresolv -lbluetooth -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto -lz -llzo2 -lpthread -ltiff -ljpeg -lbz2 -lGLU -lGLEW -lGL -L/usr/lib -lpython2.7 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -ldl -ltinyxml -lcrossguid -luuid -lyajl -lxml2 -lxslt -lxml2 -lfribidi -lsqlite3 -lpng12 -lpcre -lpcrecpp -lpcre -lfreetype -ltag -lcdio -lm -lasound -ldbus-1 -lasound -lpulse -lX11 -lXext -lXrandr -ldrm -lsmbclient -ludev -lcap -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -lva-x11 -lva -L/home/boxman/xbmc/tools/depends/native/libsquish-native/squish-install/lib -lsquish '

thats from your config log, any more -ffmepgs and you go dizzy.

to be honest I think you are not compiling regular Kodi I never seen that on my logs.

[wsnipex]

last thing to try is:
./configure --with-ffmpeg=force

Configured successfully but still fails at "make" with the same problems as before "g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-ffmpeg’"

This is pretty much impossible with vanilla kodi. As already said before: You have a strange debian ffmpeg version installed system wide, which is getting used.
It has a "-ffmpeg" suffix to all ffmpeg libs, which is what causes your error.

And now I'm out here.

[fritsch]

And once again ... http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2114929

One cannot help debian ... they just do this to break stuff for everyone and don't care for anything not in their repo, while the stuff in the repo is only compile tested. If you want multimedia - don't use debian.

[persio1]

LIBS='-lssh -lmicrohttpd -ljasper -lresolv -lbluetooth -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto -lz -llzo2 -lpthread -ltiff -ljpeg -lbz2 -lGLU -lGLEW -lGL -L/usr/lib -lpython2.7 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -ldl -ltinyxml -lcrossguid -luuid -lyajl -lxml2 -lxslt -lxml2 -lfribidi -lsqlite3 -lpng12 -lpcre -lpcrecpp -lpcre -lfreetype -ltag -lcdio -lm -lasound -ldbus-1 -lasound -lpulse -lX11 -lXext -lXrandr -ldrm -lsmbclient -ludev -lcap -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -ffmpeg -lva-x11 -lva -L/home/boxman/xbmc/tools/depends/native/libsquish-native/squish-install/lib -lsquish '

thats from your config log, any more -ffmepgs and you go dizzy.

to be honest I think you are not compiling regular Kodi I never seen that on my logs.

Compiling using this tutorial "http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Compile_Kodi_for_Debian_or_Ubuntu" and i ran this command to get the files "git clone -b Isengard git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git"

[un1versal]

I compile in Ubuntu and never seen that, not one

I see

configure:29324: "FFmpeg installation forced by user - installing our version"

and

| #define FFMPEG_VER_SHA "2.8.0-Jarvis-alpha3-HEVC"

So no idea, I blame it on Debian or on you.