Make install keeps failing. What could be the problem?

[moseskamau338]

Error code from terminal:

$ >> ./configure && make && make install
...
//later on in the logs,
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/media/root/01D2530AAD028E90/software/Projects/3rd Year Group Project/ws/timetable-generator-master/converter/qctemplate/src/ctemplate-2.2'
  CXX    libctemplate_la-arena.lo
  CXX    libctemplate_la-per_expand_data.lo
In file included from ./src/ctemplate/per_expand_data.h:49:0,
                 from src/per_expand_data.cc:37:
./src/ctemplate/template_string.h:340:24: error: unable to find string literal operator ‘operator""str’ with ‘const char [1]’, ‘long unsigned int’ arguments
   { { str, sizeof(""str"")-1, hash } };                                       \
                        ^
./src/ctemplate/template_string.h:353:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘STS_INIT_WITH_HASH’
     STS_INIT_WITH_HASH(kStsEmpty, "", 1457976849674613049ULL);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Makefile:1649: recipe for target 'libctemplate_la-per_expand_data.lo' failed
make[1]: *** [libctemplate_la-per_expand_data.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/media/root/01D2530AAD028E90/software/Projects/3rd Year Group Project/ws/timetable-generator-master/converter/qctemplate/src/ctemplate-2.2'
Makefile:1166: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please advice.