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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Build openapi-gen executables from vendor-ed dependencies
+
+. $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/common.sh
+
+WORK_DIR=`mktemp -d`
+
+function cleanup {
+  rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+mkdir -p ${WORK_DIR}/go/
+ln -s ${GOPATH}/src/k8s.io/kops/vendor/ ${WORK_DIR}/go/src
+
+GOPATH=${WORK_DIR}/go/ go install k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/openapi-gen
+cp ${WORK_DIR}/go/bin/openapi-gen ${GOPATH}/bin/
+
+# Install the apiserver-builder commands
+GOPATH=${WORK_DIR}/go/ go install github.com/kubernetes-incubator/apiserver-builder/cmd/...
+cp ${WORK_DIR}/go/bin/openapi-gen ${GOPATH}/bin/
+
+# Install the reference docs commands (apiserver-builder commands invoke these)
+GOPATH=${WORK_DIR}/go/ go install github.com/kubernetes-incubator/reference-docs/gen-apidocs/...
+cp ${WORK_DIR}/go/bin/openapi-gen ${GOPATH}/bin/
+
+# More code generators
+GOPATH=${WORK_DIR}/go/ go install k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/lister-gen
+cp ${WORK_DIR}/go/bin/lister-gen ${GOPATH}/bin/
+
+GOPATH=${WORK_DIR}/go/ go install k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/informer-gen
+cp ${WORK_DIR}/go/bin/informer-gen ${GOPATH}/bin/
+