Re: What's the latest general release of gfortran?

[Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>]

Kent G. Budge wrote:
> What is the latest release version of gfortran 4.5, with all the 
> latest bug patches? What is the svn command to get this release?
> Is 4.6 still considered a beta version?

Well, the available versions are listed at http://gcc.gnu.org/ under 
"Status". As one can see there:

The maintained release series are 4.3.x, 4.4.x and 4.5.x with the latest 
4.5 release being 4.5.2; the current SVN branch version is thus labelled 
"4.5.3 (prerelease)".

4.6 is not yet released and only available as "4.6.0 (experimental)". 
The status is "regression fixes and docs only"; the status message is at 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-01/msg00044.html
There is also a link to serious regressions; the number of P1 
regressions must be zero, the number of P2 and P3 regressions should be 
below one hundred. (Either by downgrading or fixing.)

> I used the command
> svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-4_5-branch gcc
> and got 4.5.1. But it looks like there is a 4.5.2. What's going on?

That should give you "4.5.3 (prerelease)", which matches what I have here:
$ gcc/BASE-VER
4.5.3
$ cat gcc/DEV-PHASE
prerelease


> I also tried
> svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-4_6-branch gcc
> and got back a message that doesn't exist.

4.6 will be branched just before 4.6.0 is officially released. Until 
then the SVN trunk matches the 4.6 version. As the release should happen 
relatively soon (my guess is still March), you could consider trying 4.6.

Tobias

PS: Nightly builds of GCC 4.6 (and some older versions) are available at 
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries