diff --git a/src/librustc_metadata/encoder.rs b/src/librustc_metadata/encoder.rs
index c36ae02ab54e0..292bf1daee22f 100644
--- a/src/librustc_metadata/encoder.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_metadata/encoder.rs
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> EncodeContext<'a, 'tcx> {
         let source_map = self.tcx.sess.source_map();
         let all_source_files = source_map.files();
 
-        let (working_dir, working_dir_was_remapped) = self.tcx.sess.working_dir.clone();
+        let (working_dir, _cwd_remapped) = self.tcx.sess.working_dir.clone();
 
         let adapted = all_source_files.iter()
             .filter(|source_file| {
@@ -349,32 +349,26 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> EncodeContext<'a, 'tcx> {
                 !source_file.is_imported()
             })
             .map(|source_file| {
-                // When exporting SourceFiles, we expand all paths to absolute
-                // paths because any relative paths are potentially relative to
-                // a wrong directory.
-                // However, if a path has been modified via
-                // `--remap-path-prefix` we assume the user has already set
-                // things up the way they want and don't touch the path values
-                // anymore.
                 match source_file.name {
+                    // This path of this SourceFile has been modified by
+                    // path-remapping, so we use it verbatim (and avoid
+                    // cloning the whole map in the process).
+                    _  if source_file.name_was_remapped => source_file.clone(),
+
+                    // Otherwise expand all paths to absolute paths because
+                    // any relative paths are potentially relative to a
+                    // wrong directory.
                     FileName::Real(ref name) => {
-                        if source_file.name_was_remapped ||
-                        (name.is_relative() && working_dir_was_remapped) {
-                            // This path of this SourceFile has been modified by
-                            // path-remapping, so we use it verbatim (and avoid cloning
-                            // the whole map in the process).
-                            source_file.clone()
-                        } else {
-                            let mut adapted = (**source_file).clone();
-                            adapted.name = Path::new(&working_dir).join(name).into();
-                            adapted.name_hash = {
-                                let mut hasher: StableHasher<u128> = StableHasher::new();
-                                adapted.name.hash(&mut hasher);
-                                hasher.finish()
-                            };
-                            Lrc::new(adapted)
-                        }
+                        let mut adapted = (**source_file).clone();
+                        adapted.name = Path::new(&working_dir).join(name).into();
+                        adapted.name_hash = {
+                            let mut hasher: StableHasher<u128> = StableHasher::new();
+                            adapted.name.hash(&mut hasher);
+                            hasher.finish()
+                        };
+                        Lrc::new(adapted)
                     },
+
                     // expanded code, not from a file
                     _ => source_file.clone(),
                 }
diff --git a/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/auxiliary/xcrate-generic.rs b/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/auxiliary/xcrate-generic.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6c477a407812a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/auxiliary/xcrate-generic.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// ignore-tidy-linelength
+// compile-flags: -g  --remap-path-prefix={{cwd}}=/the/aux-cwd --remap-path-prefix={{src-base}}/remap_path_prefix/auxiliary=/the/aux-src
+
+#![crate_type = "lib"]
+
+pub fn foo<T>() {}
diff --git a/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/xcrate-generic.rs b/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/xcrate-generic.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f206df9813165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/codegen/remap_path_prefix/xcrate-generic.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// ignore-windows
+// ignore-tidy-linelength
+// compile-flags: -g -C metadata=foo -C no-prepopulate-passes
+// aux-build:xcrate-generic.rs
+
+#![crate_type = "lib"]
+
+extern crate xcrate_generic;
+
+pub fn foo() {
+    xcrate_generic::foo::<u32>();
+}
+
+// Here we check that local debuginfo is mapped correctly.
+// CHECK: !DIFile(filename: "/the/aux-src/xcrate-generic.rs", directory: "")