diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76a67e531a05a7..2732d0722e9122 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Feb  5 10:09:31 2011  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* load.c (rb_get_expanded_load_path): always expand load paths.
+
 Sat Feb  5 09:38:08 2011  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* transcode.c (encoded_dup): extract.
diff --git a/load.c b/load.c
index 185d6e0c39c676..5e6b9d0d55783b 100644
--- a/load.c
+++ b/load.c
@@ -48,14 +48,6 @@ rb_get_expanded_load_path(void)
     VALUE ary;
     long i;
 
-    for (i = 0; i < RARRAY_LEN(load_path); ++i) {
-	VALUE str = rb_check_string_type(RARRAY_PTR(load_path)[i]);
-	if (NIL_P(str) || !rb_is_absolute_path(RSTRING_PTR(str)))
-	    goto relative_path_found;
-    }
-    return load_path;
-
-  relative_path_found:
     ary = rb_ary_new2(RARRAY_LEN(load_path));
     for (i = 0; i < RARRAY_LEN(load_path); ++i) {
 	VALUE path = rb_file_expand_path(RARRAY_PTR(load_path)[i], Qnil);
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_autoload.rb b/test/ruby/test_autoload.rb
index c2039086cfcf57..eeedc7d98835dd 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_autoload.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_autoload.rb
@@ -9,4 +9,29 @@ def test_autoload_so
     begin Continuation; rescue LoadError; end
     INPUT
   end
+
+  def test_non_realpath_in_loadpath
+    require 'tmpdir'
+    tmpdir = Dir.mktmpdir('autoload')
+    tmpdirs = [tmpdir]
+    tmpdirs.unshift(tmpdir + '/foo')
+    Dir.mkdir(tmpdirs[0])
+    tmpfiles = [tmpdir + '/foo.rb', tmpdir + '/foo/bar.rb']
+    open(tmpfiles[0] , 'w') do |f|
+      f.puts <<-INPUT
+$:.unshift(File.expand_path('..', __FILE__)+'/./foo')
+module Foo
+  autoload :Bar, 'bar'
+end
+Foo::Bar
+      INPUT
+    end
+    open(tmpfiles[1], 'w') do |f|
+      f.puts 'class Foo::Bar; end'
+    end
+    assert_in_out_err([tmpfiles[0]], "", [], [])
+  ensure
+    File.unlink(*tmpfiles) rescue nil if tmpfiles
+    tmpdirs.each {|dir| Dir.rmdir(dir)}
+  end
 end