u/edjak53

are there any GNUstep apps that provide a macOS Cocoa-like dock on the bottom of the screen on which gnustep .app applications can be placed?

the GWorkspace dock can only be placed on either the left or right side of the screen. i've also checked out github.com/gnustep/apps-dock/ but that doesn't seem to work properly and i doubt it will any time soon

the README does mention its supposed to build on macOS, but i get this error on it
config.mk doesn't mention anything about macOS either

% make -j6 
cc -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_NETBSD_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -o libutil/cp.o -c libutil/cp.c
libutil/cp.c:148:17: error: no member named 'st_atim' in 'struct stat'
  148 |                 times[0] = st.st_atim;
      |                            ~~ ^
libutil/cp.c:149:17: error: no member named 'st_mtim' in 'struct stat'
  149 |                 times[1] = st.st_mtim;
      |                            ~~ ^
2 errors generated.
make[1]: *** [libutil/cp.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

i googled around a bit and it's apparently a known issue on macOS but i haven't found a clear fix that would work with this

I'm on slackware 15.0. i thought it would be fine for most stuff but it turns out its glibc version is too old for many things that i need.
slackpkg search glibc reports an available glibc-2.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0 in testing. however it's also a multilib system and it doesn't seem that there's a multilib version of 2.42 for slackware 15.0 in alienbob's repos.

What is my best course of action? Upgrading to current? If so, how would that work with an existing 15.0 multilib setup?