diff --git a/src/librustc/metadata/creader.rs b/src/librustc/metadata/creader.rs
index 7b71120ba64..16141b171ff 100644
--- a/src/librustc/metadata/creader.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/metadata/creader.rs
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ impl<'a> CrateReader<'a> {
                 if found {
                     ret = Some(cnum);
                 }
+                return
             }
 
             // Alright, so we've gotten this far which means that `data` has the
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/Makefile b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..110db9f068d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-include ../tools.mk
+
+all:
+	$(RUSTC) libc.rs
+	$(RUSTC) main.rs --extern libc=$(TMPDIR)/liblibc.rlib
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/libc.rs b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/libc.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a489d834a92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/libc.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Copyright 2015 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.
+
+#![crate_type = "lib"]
+
+pub fn foo() {}
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/main.rs b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92b353c892a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/extern-overrides-distribution/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Copyright 2015 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.
+
+extern crate libc;
+
+fn main() {
+    libc::foo();
+}
+