DBD::mysql failing commit test for transactions

Greetings

I am trying to get mysql to work with a perl interface that fails with an error message about transactions not
being enabled. I have gone back to the DBD driver and tried the test there and get:

[root <at> HSV-PROBE DBD-mysql-3.0003]# make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib',
'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00base.............ok
t/10dsnlist..........ok
t/20createdrop.......ok
t/30insertfetch......ok
t/35limit............ok
t/40bindparam........ok
t/40blobs............ok
t/40listfields.......ok
t/40nulls............ok
t/40numrows..........ok
t/41blobs_prepare....ok
t/50chopblanks.......ok
t/50commit...........Transactions not supported by database at t/50commit.t line 101.
t/50commit...........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 5-30
        Failed 26/30 tests, 13.33% okay
t/60leaks............skipped
        all skipped: $ENV{SLOW_TESTS} is not set or Proc::ProcessTable not installed
t/dbdadmin...........ok
t/insertid...........ok
t/param_values.......ok