diff --git a/src/wscript b/src/wscript
index 1f9a8a016..9cf072e6b 100644
--- a/src/wscript
+++ b/src/wscript
@@ -59,11 +59,16 @@ def configure(conf):
             if not conf.env['LIB_BOOST']:
                 conf.env['LIB_BOOST'] = []
 
+    # Append blddir to the module path before recursing into modules
+    blddir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(conf.bldnode.abspath(), conf.variant))
+    conf.env.append_value('NS3_MODULE_PATH', blddir)
+
     for module in all_modules:
         conf.recurse(module, mandatory=False)
 
-    blddir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(conf.bldnode.abspath(), conf.variant))
-    conf.env.append_value('NS3_MODULE_PATH', blddir)
+    # Remove duplicate path items
+    conf.env['NS3_MODULE_PATH'] = wutils.uniquify_list(conf.env['NS3_MODULE_PATH'])
+
     if Options.options.enable_rpath:
         conf.env.append_value('RPATH', '-Wl,-rpath,%s' % (os.path.join(blddir),))
 
diff --git a/wutils.py b/wutils.py
index 56029885c..33d745a23 100644
--- a/wutils.py
+++ b/wutils.py
@@ -228,3 +228,10 @@ def run_python_program(program_string, env, visualize=False):
     return run_argv([env['PYTHON'][0]] + execvec, env, cwd=cwd)
 
 
+def uniquify_list(seq):
+    """Remove duplicates while preserving order
+       From Dave Kirby http://www.peterbe.com/plog/uniqifiers-benchmark
+    """
+    seen = set()
+    return [ x for x in seq if x not in seen and not seen.add(x)]
+