Ncurses 6.0 Compilation Error - error: expected ')' before 'int' : <h1>Problem description</h1>

<p>Trying to install ncurses 6.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is failing with a compilation error:</p>

<pre><code>In file included from ./curses.priv.h:325:0,
                 from ../ncurses/lib_gen.c:19:
_24273.c:843:15: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’
../include/curses.h:1631:56: note: in definition of macro ‘mouse_trafo’
#define mouse_trafo(y,x,to_screen) wmouse_trafo(stdscr,y,x,to_screen)
                                                    ^
Makefile:962: recipe for target '../objects/lib_gen.o' failed
make[1]: *** [../objects/lib_gen.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/netsamir/Sofware/Tmux/ncurses-6.0/ncurses'
Makefile:113: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
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<h1>Configuration</h1>

<pre><code>netsamir@octopus:~/Sofware/Tmux/ncurses-6.0$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

netsamir@octopus:~/Sofware/Tmux/ncurses-6.0$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) 5.3.1 20160413
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

netsamir@octopus:~/Sofware/Tmux/ncurses-6.0$ cpp --version
cpp (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) 5.3.1 20160413
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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