Gentoo

It works in upstream MySQL, though.
The difference is in vs_config_dirs subroutine.

In MySQL, it returns 4 paths:

  return ("$bindir/$path_part/Release/$exe",

          "$bindir/$path_part/RelWithDebinfo/$exe",

          "$bindir/$path_part/Debug/$exe",

          "$bindir/$path_part/$exe");

in MariaDB, there are only 3:

  return ("$basedir/$path_part/release/$exe",

          "$basedir/$path_part/relwithdebinfo/$exe",

          "$basedir/$path_part/debug/$exe");

The last path in MySQL's version is where replace actually is.

I bumped into the same issue when packaging an 5.5.40 -> 5.5.41 upgrade for Ubuntu, see log at http://paste.debian.net/138376/

I tried the fix above, using both $basedir and $bindir, but those didn't have any effect. So I ended up with this patch: https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-5.5/commit/e06840b

Now it works (or at least for me): http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/mariadb-5.5-sid-amd64/mariadb-5.5_5.5.41-1_amd64.build-e06840b-pbuilder.log

For clarification, my comment above was not a fix, it was an observation regarding why MySQL's version works, while MariaDB's fails. I chose not to fix it, because I didn't know (right away) what caused MySQL's version have $bindir there, while MariaDB's one has $basedir. I can dig into it, but I thought serg might know it already if the changes were his.

I did hope that the workaround with adding the extra line would work, though..

The problem was fixed in this revision: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.5/revision/4399 (apparently as a side change)

=== modified file 'mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl'

--- mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl	2014-12-19 10:35:44 +0000

+++ mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl	2015-01-06 15:32:41 +0000

@@ -2495,6 +2495,7 @@

   # ----------------------------------------------------

   my $exe_replace= mtr_exe_exists(vs_config_dirs('extra', 'replace'),

                                  "$basedir/extra/replace",

+                                 "$bindir/extra$opt_vs_config/replace",

                                  "$path_client_bindir/replace");

   $ENV{'REPLACE'}= native_path($exe_replace);