Problems with testsuite



I have been working through the failures in the
share/contrib/diffequations/tests testsuite.  I have been able to fix
most of them with some minor editing, such as adding brackets to the
expected solutions, but I cannot understand or work around some of the
failures.  The answers appear identical to those expected.

I have tried maxima-5.9.13 under Windows/gcl, CVS maxima under
Windwos/gcl and CVS maxima under cygwin/clisp.

As an example consider the following:

/* j.mac */
(load('contrib_ode), 0);
0;

odelin('diff(y,x,2)+7*y,y,x);
set (%e^-(sqrt(-7)*x),%e^(sqrt(-7)*x));


When run in maxima with the command batch("j.mac",'test) the output is


Input:
              2
             d y
odelin(7 y + ---, y, x)
               2
             dx


Result:
...trying factor method
...solving 1 equations in 1 variables
   - sqrt(- 7) x    sqrt(- 7) x
{%e             , %e           }

This differed from the expected result:
   - sqrt(- 7) x    sqrt(- 7) x
{%e             , %e           }


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