diff --git a/Make/makedefs b/Make/makedefs
index a5d9f1268..4dbb58058 100644
--- a/Make/makedefs
+++ b/Make/makedefs
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ endif
   TIFF_LIB          = -ltiff
   GIF_LIBS          = -lungif
 
+  MAKEDIST          = $(TOPDIR)/Make/makeirixdist
+
 endif
 
 #### Linux specific definitions
diff --git a/Make/makeirixdist b/Make/makeirixdist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6fe4e3535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Make/makeirixdist
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo_idb()
+{
+
+## EOE 
+    #####################################################################
+    #  Capture bin directory
+
+    dd=`echo $INST_DEMOS | sed -e 's/\///'`
+    echo d 0755 root sys $dd $dd osg.eoe.sw
+    cd bin
+    for f in `find . -type l -print | grep -v CVS | sed -e 's/\.\///' | grep -v "\."`
+    do
+	echo f 0755 root sys $dd/$f $dd/$f osg.eoe.sw
+    done
+    cd ..
+
+    #####################################################################
+    #  Capture lib and lib/osgPlugins directory
+
+    dd=`echo $INST_LIBS | sed -e 's/\///'`
+    echo d 0755 root sys $dd $dd osg.eoe.sw
+    echo d 0755 root sys $dd/osgPlugins $dd/osgPlugins osg.eoe.sw
+    cd lib
+    for f in `find . -type l -print | grep -v CVS | sed -e 's/\.\///' `
+    do
+	echo f 0755 root sys $dd/$f $dd/$f osg.eoe.sw
+    done
+    cd ..
+
+## DEV
+    #####################################################################
+    #  Capture include directories and files
+    dd=`echo $INST_INCLUDE | sed -e 's/\///'`
+
+    cd include
+    
+    echo d 0755 root sys $dd $dd osg.dev.sw
+    for d in  `find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | sed -e 's/\.\///' | grep -v "\."`
+    do
+        echo d 0755 root sys $dd/$d $dd/$d osg.dev.sw
+    done
+    cd ..
+
+    #####################################################################
+    #  Capture installed demo source
+
+     dd=`echo $INST_SRC | sed -e 's/\///'`
+     THISDIR=`pwd`
+     cd $INST_SRC
+     for d in `find . -type d -print | sed -e 's/\.\///' | grep -v "\." `
+     do
+         echo d 0755 root sys $dd/$d $dd/$d osg.dev.sw
+     done
+     for f in `find . -type f -print | sed -e 's/\.\///'`
+     do
+         echo f 0755 root sys $dd/$f $dd/$f osg.dev.sw
+     done
+     cd $THISDIR
+}
+
+make_idb()
+{
+    echo_idb | sort -k5
+}
+
+make_spec()
+{
+    cat <<- SPEC_EOF  
+product osg
+    id "Open Scene Graph `bin/osgversion`"
+    image eoe
+        id "Open Scene Graph `bin/osgversion` Run-Time Environment"
+        version `bin/osgversion`
+        order 9999
+        subsys sw default
+            id "Open Scene Graph `bin/osgversion` Run-Time Environment"
+            replaces self
+            exp osg.eoe.sw
+        endsubsys
+    endimage
+    image dev
+        id "Open Scene Graph `bin/osgversion` Development Environment"
+        version `bin/osgversion`
+        order 9999
+        subsys sw default
+            id "Open Scene Graph `bin/osgversion` Development Environment"
+            replaces self
+            exp osg.dev.sw
+        endsubsys
+    endimage
+endproduct
+SPEC_EOF
+}
+
+intro()
+{
+    echo; echo;
+    echo "============ Building the $OS Distribution Package ==================="
+    echo ""
+    echo "    Please note that this script requires that" 
+    echo 
+    echo "        'make install' "
+    echo 
+    echo "    be previously run.  Please run "
+    echo 
+    echo "        'make distribution' "
+    echo 
+    echo "    with the same arguments (if any) as 'make install'"
+    echo
+    repeat=1
+    while [ $repeat = 1 ] 
+    do 
+      printf "    Continue? (y/n) [y]: "
+      read resp
+      case $resp in  
+       ""|Yes|YES|yes|Y|y) repeat=0 ;; 
+	        n|N|no|NO) return 1; repeat=0;;
+                *)         repeat=1;; 
+      esac
+   done
+
+   return 0
+}
+
+OS=$1
+TOPDIR=$2
+INST_LIBS=$3
+INST_PLUGINS=$4
+INST_INCLUDE=$5
+INST_DEMOS=$6
+INST_SRC=$7
+INST_DEMO_SRC=$8
+shift;shift; shift;shift; shift;shift; shift;shift;
+INST_DOC=$1
+INST_DATA=$2
+
+
+intro || exit 0
+
+make_spec > dist/Irix/osg.spec
+make_idb > dist/Irix/osg.idb
+
+DIST_DIR=Distribution-`bin/osgversion`
+
+cd dist/Irix
+rm -rf $DIST_DIR
+mkdir $DIST_DIR
+/usr/sbin/gendist -sbase / -idb osg.idb -spec osg.spec -dist $DIST_DIR
+cd $DIST_DIR
+tar cvf ../osg.tardist *
+mv ../osg.tardist .
+cd ../../../
+
+
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/Make/makepkg b/Make/makepkg
index f36f616af..d787dd51c 100644
--- a/Make/makepkg
+++ b/Make/makepkg
@@ -121,6 +121,38 @@ make_package()
 }
 
 
+intro()
+{
+    echo; echo;
+    echo "============ Building the $OS Distribution Package ==================="
+    echo ""
+    echo "    Please note that this script requires that" 
+    echo 
+    echo "        'make install' "
+    echo 
+    echo "    be previously run.  Please run "
+    echo 
+    echo "        'make distribution' "
+    echo 
+    echo "    with the same arguments (if any) as 'make install'"
+    echo
+    repeat=1
+    while [ $repeat = 1 ] 
+    do 
+      printf "    Continue? (y/n) [y]: "
+      read resp
+      case $resp in  
+       ""|Yes|YES|yes|Y|y) repeat=0 ;; 
+	        n|N|no|NO) return 1; repeat=0;;
+                *)         repeat=1;; 
+      esac
+   done
+
+   return 0
+}
+
+intro || exit 0
+
 OS=$1
 TOPDIR=$2
 INST_LIBS=$3