[Pfunit-support] gfortran-4.7.x support

[Benjamin A. <ba...@lb...>]

I've been working on bringing pFUnit into our project but hit a snag. We still support gfortran 4.7.x (and will probably continue as long as it is the "oldest maintained release" of gcc, http://gcc.gnu.org/). I've run into the "Deferred-length character component" bug:

SurrogateTestCase.F90:54.57:

         class (SurrogateTestCase), intent(inout) :: this
                                                         1
Error: Deferred-length character component 'getname' at (1) is not yet supported

mentioned on the pfunit-support mailing list:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pfunit/mailman/message/31184942/

Only supporting unit testing on gfortran-4.8 is possible but suboptimal. Is supporting gfortran-4.7.x in the pfunit-2.1 branch feasible? I'm willing to work on it and submit patches, but I don't want to start down a never ending path of kludges to get it to work.

Thanks,

Ben