How to fix a mysql2 gem install problem

This is one of those posts that’s written as my extended memory. I ran into an issue trying to install the mysql2 gem on a client project today running MySQL 5.6 (yeah yeah, I know). The root issue wasn’t immediately obvious, but I managed to find a workaround.

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