Ignore the dreaded aclocal warnings on underquoted definitions that the

  rm -rf autom4te.cache

  # generate the build files

  ./buildconf 2>&1 | tee $buildlog

  log "invoke buildconf, but filter off the silly aclocal warnings"

  ./buildconf 2>&1 | grep -v "warning: underquoted definition of" | tee $buildlog

  if { grep "^buildconf: OK" $buildlog >/dev/null 2>&1; } then

     log "buildconf was successful"