maniread in ExtUtils::Manifest treats everything after the first whitespace as a comment. Is there some way to specify a filename that contains a space? Renaming the file isn't an option for me.
No, but here is a novel idea though (: 
use ExtUtils::Manifest();
sub ExtUtils::Manifest::maniread {
 print "blah blah blah";
}
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
...

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Previously I was leaving them out of the MANIFEST and added a PREOP in Makefile.PL to copy the files manually. Unfortunately, I've switched to Module::Install and it doesn't seem to have equivalent functionality. :(
According to scandeps, Module::Install doesn't use ExtUtils::Manifest so I'm not sure why you're looking at ExtUtils::Manifest, but you can always

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In reply to Re: MANIFEST with spaces in filenames? by PodMaster
in thread MANIFEST with spaces in filenames? by coppit

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