Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:54:33 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:20:16 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> But why is this file being installed anyway?

Because Windows users need instructions on how to set up their Emacs,
when they have just unpacked precompiled binaries.

This file was always in the Windows binary distro, but it was always
copied by hand.  Since the binary zip is made from the installation
tree, the file needs to be there, or else it will be forgotten (as it
have been already).