Missing "Makefile.PL" -- by design! -- file is created by "make" process[0] (I checked only ext/Devel-Peek on my end). Reason for 0-sized "Makefile.PL" most likely is that file system did not have enough physical disk space to populate it but just enough to create an entry (inode) in the directory. 

ls -Faltr ext/Devel-Peek
total 86
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2248 Jun 30  2017 Changes
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  12508 Jun 30  2017 Peek.xs
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  18073 Jun 30  2017 Peek.pm
drwxr-xr-x  43 root  wheel     43 Sep 22  2017 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      3 Sep 22  2017 t/
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1578 Apr  6 22:22 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  30738 Apr  6 22:22 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel      6 Apr  6 22:22 blib/
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      0 Apr  6 22:22 pm_to_blib
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  22482 Apr  6 22:22 Peek.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  17256 Apr  6 22:22 Peek.o
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel     12 Apr  6 22:22 ./

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You would have to wait for someone else about bad "w" flag being passed to "make". (My speculation(!) is that not the right "make" is being detected or wrong "make" is being called.)

In reply to Re^3: perl-5.24.3 build woes by Anonymous Monk
in thread perl-5.24.3 build woes by 2pipes

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