The last of those was supposed to be verbose but I only got the normal output

It can make a difference.
I installed FileHandle-Fmode-0.14 the old-fashioned way - ie by by manually running perl Makefile.PL and make test followed by make install from inside the top level source directory.
Then I ran make realclean, and re-built the same module in the same way, except that I started with perl Makefile.PL VERBINST=0
This time make install produced: 
C:\sisyphusion\FileHandle-Fmode-0.14>make install
"C:\_64\perl530_810\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e cp_nonemp
+ty -- Fmode.bs blib\arch\auto\FileHandle\Fmode\Fmode.bs 644
Files found in blib\arch: installing files in blib\lib into architectu
+re dependent library tree
Installing C:\_64\perl530_810\site\lib\auto\FileHandle\Fmode\Fmode.dll
Appending installation info to C:\_64\perl530_810\lib/perllocal.pod

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Then I re-ran make realclean and began a third build with perl Makefile.PL VERBINST=1
This time make install did provide extra verbosity: 
C:\sisyphusion\FileHandle-Fmode-0.14>make install
"C:\_64\perl530_810\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e cp_nonemp
+ty -- Fmode.bs blib\arch\auto\FileHandle\Fmode\Fmode.bs 644
Files found in blib\arch: installing files in blib\lib into architectu
+re dependent library tree
Installing C:\_64\perl530_810\site\lib\auto\FileHandle\Fmode\Fmode.dll
Skipping C:\_64\perl530_810\site\lib\FileHandle\Fmode.pm (unchanged)
Writing C:\_64\perl530_810\site\lib\auto\FileHandle\Fmode\.packlist
Appending installation info to C:\_64\perl530_810\lib/perllocal.pod

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Perhaps one gets full verbosity on the initial make install irrespective of the setting of VERBINST ?
The documentation should spell things out in detail IMO.

BTW, I saw the same 'VERBINST' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name warning each time, as you did.

Oh ... and I think it's insane that EU::MM complains about a parameter that it does understand.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker - VERBINST unknown by syphilis
in thread ExtUtils::MakeMaker - VERBINST unknown by kcott

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