diff --git a/oshmem/mca/sshmem/base/Makefile.am b/oshmem/mca/sshmem/base/Makefile.am
index 79b11b1269..6f1068b186 100644
--- a/oshmem/mca/sshmem/base/Makefile.am
+++ b/oshmem/mca/sshmem/base/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2014      Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
 #                         All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 # $COPYRIGHT$
 # 
 # Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -7,6 +8,8 @@
 # $HEADER$
 #
 
+dist_ompidata_DATA = base/help-oshmem-sshmem.txt
+
 headers += \
         base/base.h