diff --git a/build_tests/simple/user_dep_build_order.rb b/build_tests/simple/user_dep_build_order.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6afd2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_tests/simple/user_dep_build_order.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+class TestBuilder < Rscons::Builder
+  def run(options)
+    target, env, vars, cache = options.values_at(:target, :env, :vars, :cache)
+    if target == "two"
+      return false unless File.exists?("one")
+    end
+    wait_time = env.expand_varref("${wait_time}", vars)
+    command = ["ruby", "-e", "require 'fileutils'; sleep #{wait_time}; FileUtils.touch('#{target}');"]
+    standard_threaded_build("TestBuilder", target, command, [], env, cache)
+  end
+
+  def finalize(options)
+    standard_finalize(options)
+  end
+end
+
+Rscons::Environment.new do |env|
+  env.add_builder(TestBuilder.new)
+  env.TestBuilder("one", [], "wait_time" => "3")
+  env.TestBuilder("two", [], "wait_time" => "0")
+  env.depends("two", "one")
+end
diff --git a/lib/rscons/environment.rb b/lib/rscons/environment.rb
index 0239470..d85e821 100644
--- a/lib/rscons/environment.rb
+++ b/lib/rscons/environment.rb
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ module Rscons
       user_deps = user_deps.map {|ud| expand_varref(ud)}
       @user_deps[target] ||= []
       @user_deps[target] = (@user_deps[target] + user_deps).uniq
+      build_after(target, user_deps)
     end
 
     # Manually record the given target(s) as needing to be built after the
diff --git a/spec/build_tests_spec.rb b/spec/build_tests_spec.rb
index 88761cb..9b96fc8 100644
--- a/spec/build_tests_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/build_tests_spec.rb
@@ -746,6 +746,12 @@ EOF
     expect(result.status).to_not eq 0
   end
 
+  it "orders builds to respect user dependencies" do
+    test_dir("simple")
+    result = run_test(rsconsfile: "user_dep_build_order.rb", rscons_args: %w[-j4])
+    expect(result.stderr).to eq ""
+  end
+
   context "backward compatibility" do
     it "allows a builder to call Environment#run_builder in a non-threaded manner" do
       test_dir("simple")