[PATCH modular] build.sh usage text: remove annoying backslashes

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:46 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > This is text intended for the user to read, not the shell
> > interpreter.
> 
> Yes, that's why there are backslashes, so the interpreter doesn't
> replace them when displaying the help text.
> 
> For example the user is told they can set an environment variable
> called "LIBDIR" to specify where to install libraries. FONTPATH uses
> the defined LIBDIR so to specify the FONTPATH the usage is currently
> described as:
> 
>     FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: $PREFIX/$LIBDIR...)
> 
> If you remove the backslashes the user will be informed that:
> 
>     FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: /...)
> 
> if neither $PREFIX nor $LIBDIR are set. In this case it's not clear to
> the user that the FONTPATH is being built using the predefined PREFIX
> and LIBDIR variables.


Thanks I should have seen this.
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