error in installing ncurses

[Jianfeng Menglu]

When I install ncurses 5.8 and 5.9 in zorin-os-7.1 according to install instruction, an error message came up and installing stopped when I type "make". This error should not be produced based on the instruction. Is there any idea how I can resolve this problem? Thanks.

Jianfeng

error message: 

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installing vt300

/usr/bin/install -c ncurses-config /home/jianfeng/usr/bin/ncurses5-config

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jianfeng/Downloads/samtools-0.1.19/ncurses-5.8/misc'

cd c++ && make DESTDIR="/home/jianfeng" install

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jianfeng/Downloads/samtools-0.1.19/ncurses-5.8/c++'

cd ../obj_s;   -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include  -fPIC -c ../c++/cursesf.cc

/bin/sh: 1: -I../c++: not found

make[1]: *** [../obj_s/cursesf.o] Error 127

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jianfeng/Downloads/samtools-0.1.19/ncurses-5.8/c++'

make: *** [install] Error 2