diff --git a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
index 6b282ab1a0..4f1f582a20 100644
--- a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
@@ -2011,6 +2011,8 @@ bool cmLocalGenerator::GetRealDependency(const std::string& inName,
     dep = cmStrCat(this->GetCurrentBinaryDirectory(), '/', inName);
   }
 
+  dep = cmSystemTools::CollapseFullPath(dep, this->GetBinaryDirectory());
+
   return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/Tests/CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt
index 86c74ba876..d43cdba69b 100644
--- a/Tests/CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Tests/CustomCommand/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ set_property(SOURCE "${gen_file}" PROPERTY SYMBOLIC ON)
 add_custom_target(command_expand_lists ALL DEPENDS "${gen_file}")
 set_property(TARGET command_expand_lists PROPERTY CMPARGS "${cmp_args}")
 
+# This also tests that `./` is squeezed out of the resulting path.
 set(depends_path "./depended_upon_path.txt")
 
 add_custom_command(