diff --git a/lib/Module/Metadata.pm b/lib/Module/Metadata.pm
index 0066535..0de3075 100644
--- a/lib/Module/Metadata.pm
+++ b/lib/Module/Metadata.pm
@@ -693,6 +693,10 @@ sub _evaluate_version_line {
   $eval = $1 if $eval =~ m{^(.+)}s;
 
   local $^W;
+
+  # if inc has been set, look there for any required modules
+  local @INC = (@{$self->{inc}}, @INC) if defined $self->{inc};
+
   # Try to get the $VERSION
   my $vsub = __clean_eval($eval);
   # some modules say $VERSION <equal sign> $Foo::Bar::VERSION, but Foo::Bar isn't
diff --git a/t/lib/0_1/Bar.pm b/t/lib/0_1/Bar.pm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb3303d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/lib/0_1/Bar.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package Bar;
+our $VERSION = '0.1';
+
+package Bar::History;
+
+# adapted from WWW::Scripter
+<<'mldistwatch' if 0;
+use Bar; $VERSION = $Bar'VERSION;
+mldistwatch
+our $VERSION = $Bar'VERSION;
+
+1;
diff --git a/t/version.t b/t/version.t
index f97a19d..99d7208 100644
--- a/t/version.t
+++ b/t/version.t
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use Test::More;
 use Module::Metadata;
 use lib "t/lib/0_2";
 
-plan tests => 4;
+plan tests => 6;
 
 require Foo;
 is($Foo::VERSION, 0.2, 'affirmed version of loaded module');
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ is($Foo::VERSION, 0.2, 'loaded module still retains its version');
 ok(eval "use Foo 0.2; 1", 'successfully loaded module again')
     or diag 'got exception: ', $@;
 
-
-
-
-
-
+my $bar_meta = Module::Metadata->new_from_module("Bar", inc => [ "t/lib/0_1" ] );
+is scalar @{$bar_meta->{packages}}, 2, 'found 2 packages in Bar';
+is $bar_meta->{versions}{'Bar::History'}, $bar_meta->{versions}{'Bar'}, 'Bars version gets passed to Bar::History';