diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bd5cecc..603593c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ tags
 doc/
 log_subdir/
 coverage/
+install/
+libucore-*
diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 160a212..40e4f5a 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ subdirs = [
 ]
 
 for subdir in subdirs:
-    SConscript(subdir + '/SConscript', variant_dir='#build/' + subdir, src_dir='#'+subdir, duplicate=0)
+    env.SConscript(subdir + '/SConscript', variant_dir='#build/' + subdir, src_dir='#'+subdir, duplicate=0)
+
+distfile='libucore-' + version_info['version_str'] + '.tar.gz'
+distcmd = env.Tar(distfile,'install', TARFLAGS='-cz')
+env.Alias('dist', distcmd)
+env.Depends('dist', 'install')
 
 env.Default('src')