syntax error on 4.9.2

[Arjen Markus]

Actually, it has an explicit interface - any routine appearing in a
CONTAINS section has, as it is either an internal routine or a routine
in a module.

Regards,

Arjen

2016-11-15 13:40 GMT+01:00 Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt@gmail.com>:
>>First, try updating to a newer version of gfortran.  There's been 8
>>releases since 4.9.2.
> But I think that it is compatible with old compilers.
>
>
>>Second,  there is way too little information to help you.  Does xml_tag
>>have an implicit or explicit interface?
> I am not a fortran expert. I want to just compile and run the package.
>
>
> The code looks like
>       CONTAINS
>         SUBROUTINE XML_TAG( tag, name, type, param, comment )
>           IMPLICIT NONE
>           CHARACTER (LEN=*) :: tag
>           CHARACTER (LEN=*),OPTIONAL :: name
>           CHARACTER (LEN=*),OPTIONAL :: type
>           CHARACTER (LEN=*),OPTIONAL :: param
>           CHARACTER (LEN=*),OPTIONAL :: comment
>
>         ! check whether maxstringlen is sufficiently large
>           IF (LEN(tag) > maxstringlen) THEN
>      ....
>      ....
>
>
> So it seems that it is has an implicit interface.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahmood