diff --git a/usr/fileio/Makefile b/usr/fileio/Makefile
index 06724ab11..9daa0eeff 100644
--- a/usr/fileio/Makefile
+++ b/usr/fileio/Makefile
@@ -110,4 +110,7 @@ extraclean: clean
 	grep "^#CFLAGS += \-DDEBUG -g -fno-inline -fno-inline-functions" Makefile >/dev/null
 	rm Makefile.aa
 
+release-archive:
+	../../scripts/generate-release-archive fileio_tgt "$$(sed -n 's/^#define[[:blank:]]VERSION_STR[[:blank:]]*\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/p' fileio.c)"
+
 .PHONY: all install uninstall clean extraclean 2release 2debug 2perf