use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Std;
+use Config;
$Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION = 1;
my $trysource = "try.c";
close $out or die "Can't close $trysource: $!";
-print "doing: make $tryout\n" if $opt{v};
-system "make $tryout" and die;
+print "doing: $Config{make} $tryout\n" if $opt{v};
+my $cmd = "$Config{make} $tryout";
+system( $cmd ) == 0
+ or die "Couldn't launch [$cmd]: $! / $?";
# if user wants 'indent' formatting ..
my $out_fh;