[Help-glpk] Re: glpkmex

[Andrew Makhorin]

> I've been trying to install glpkmex for matlab, on ubuntu.  I've got
> glpk 4.29 installed, and glpkmex 2.4.  I manually fixed the errors
> about glp_long and glp_mem_usage, commented the line about xassert and
> I still get this error:

>>> makeglpkmex
> GLPKMEX - A Matlab interface for GLPK. Script installer.
> Version 2.4 compatible with GLPK 4.20 (or higher)
> (C) 2001-2007, Nicolo' Giorgetti.

> Do you want to use graphic installer? Y/N [Y]: N
> GLPK path: /usr
> GLPK path... /usr
> GLPK include files...OK
> GLPK library file...OK
> -I/usr/include glpkcc.cpp /usr/lib/libglpk.aIn function ‘char*
> strcpy(char*, const char*)’,
>     inlined from ‘void mexFunction(int, mxArray**, int, const
> mxArray**)’ at glpkcc.cpp:707:
> /usr/include/bits/string3.h:106: warning: call to char*
> __builtin___strcpy_chk(char*, const char*, unsigned int) will always
> overflow destination buffer
> In function ‘char* strcpy(char*, const char*)’,
>     inlined from ‘void mexFunction(int, mxArray**, int, const
> mxArray**)’ at glpkcc.cpp:711:
> /usr/include/bits/string3.h:106: warning: call to char*
> __builtin___strcpy_chk(char*, const char*, unsigned int) will always
> overflow destination buffer

> Any hints?

You can try using a patched version of glpkcc which conforms to recent
glpk versions. See attachment to the following message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-glpk/2009-01/msg00039.html