Hi

It has nothing to do with downloading the modules as far as I can see. I manually configured CPAN, have added a proxy and set the server to download from.

Also you can see when something is downloading from the on screen logs and it takes a very short time before it starts the Make process, as in my first post, I was clear that it happens right after the text

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
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which happens after the module is downloaded.