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Well, the above change is indeed sufficient to keep the ffmpeg producer going. I can submit it as a PR, but it feels a bit hackish. Thoughts?

Not that it helps in your effort, but here is a good read on history of Mac OS: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/713 Theoretically, you should be able to build it. - First, you...

FWIW compat 13 is not supported by Ubuntu 20.04. If you are interested in Debian packages for cling, you can find them here: https://launchpad.net/~ppa-verse/+archive/ubuntu/cling

Maybe follow what bash does with `.bash_history`? There are two env vars -- `HISTSIZE` and `HISTFILESIZE` -- which control how many commands are stored in the file and max file...

As regards to the 2nd point, I remember seeing some commits in @vgvassilev's repo that allowed one to specify custom history file. So, the test suite shoud set it to...

It looks like point 2 has already been implemented in https://github.com/root-project/cling/commit/90a763946158f4a00acde84bed97866dd5d8e6f4. Just need to get the test suite to specify a temp history file.

And it seem `CLING_HISTSIZE` has also been implemented in https://github.com/root-project/cling/commit/392d5365d5af7cf3c8296809e4537b757ccbd7e3. It just needs to default to a sane value.

@Axel-Naumann are you still interested in this issue? If so, let me know and I can take a stab at it. Otherwise, I'd hate to do something that will then...

@richen666 sorry, no progress from me, I've been busy with other things.

@Freed-Wu if you are on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 (23.04 coming soon), you can find native Debian packages for cling and xeus-cling here: https://launchpad.net/~ppa-verse/+archive/ubuntu/xeus-cling I've just recompiled them earlier today...