MySQL driver test failures

Ruby
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I am installing the MySQL driver 2.7 and get the four failures
attached belowe on ruby test.rb. Are they known? Would you install
the driver anyway?

Ruby is 1.8.3, and MySQL is 5.0.17, prepackaged for Mac OS X.

– fxn

% ruby ./test.rb
Loaded suite ./test
Started
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Finished in 1.203497 seconds.

  1. Failure:
    test_fetch_bigint(TC_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:799]:
    <[-1]> expected but was
    <[9223372036854775807]>.

  2. Failure:
    test_fetch_bigint_unsigned(TC_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:812]:
    <[-1]> expected but was
    <[0]>.

  3. Failure:
    test_fetch_binary(TC_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:1009]:
    <[“abc”]> expected but was
    <[“abc\000\000\000\000\000\000\000”]>.

  4. Failure:
    test_fetch_double(TC_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:860]:
    <-1.79769313486232e+308> expected but was
    <-1.79769313486232e+308>.

110 tests, 344 assertions, 4 failures, 0 errors