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During the compilation, I got this error:

% make
ratium build options:
CC      = gcc-4.9
CFLAGS  = -std=c11 -pedantic -Wall -Iinclude -DVERSION="0.0.0"
LDFLAGS = -lncurses
CC src/data.c
make: gcc-4.9: Command not found
Makefile:40: recipe for target 'src/data.o' failed
make: *** [src/data.o] Error 127

As you can see there is no gcc-4.9 on my system, I think fixedly setting CC is problematic.

I only have 4.8 and 4.7, and my system (Gentoo) actually only goes down to with patch number, that is gcc-4.7.3 and gcc-4.8.4, there is no link to with minor number. So, it's really an issue and meant to be broken across different distributions, even on your own system in the future as 4.9 being replaced.

As a good example with your cboy, it uses gcc-4.7, I'd bet it's broken now even for you. I don't believe you would possibly keep up to three versions of GCC.

I would suggest the following if insist on having CC set:

CC ?= gcc-4.9
# better just be 
# CC ?= gcc

This way, if there is a default CC, which is supposed to be a working compiler, instead of being overriden by possible broken CC, the default is used and should have no issues; and if they do, users can still make CC=something to override.