$ cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
$ wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf last_x264.tar.bz2
$ cd x264-snapshot*
$ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-static
$ make
$ make install
$ make distclean