From 2b7fc96c99b42c371b16f0fcc8d97cd350e2c80b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:03:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve 1998/dorssel/try.sh

Get CC, defaulting to cc.
---
 1998/dorssel/try.sh | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/1998/dorssel/try.sh b/1998/dorssel/try.sh
index caad9ec87..830cddfd2 100755
--- a/1998/dorssel/try.sh
+++ b/1998/dorssel/try.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # 
-# script to show 1998/dorssel
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1998/dorssel
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
 
 echo "$ echo 'Simple as 123' | ./dorssel" 1>&2
 echo 'Simple as 123' | ./dorssel