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"Bug" Description:
    require reports the error message:
                Cannot open load file "foo.el"
    when its second argument is the name of a file that exists in the 
    load-path directory "~/emacs" . This problem does not occur if
    "~/emacs" is replaced by an absolute pathname.

Scratch Buffer Session:
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emacs-version
"18.52.3"

(setq debug-on-error t)
t

load-path
("~/emacs" "/usr/local/emacs/lisp")

(require 'foobar "foo.el")
*************************** BACKTRACE OF ERROR ******************************
Signalling: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "foo.el")
  require(foobar "foo.el")
  eval-region(28 54 #<buffer *scratch*>)
  byte-code("BCD E
  eval-print-last-sexp(nil)
* call-interactively(eval-print-last-sexp)
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The text of ~/emacs/foo.el follows:
******************************************************************************
(provide 'foobar)

(defun foobar-function ()
    (message "Howdy! this is the foobar function!!")
    (sleep-for 5)
)
******************************************************************************