Actually, Module::Build::Base uses ExtUtils::Manifest. Even worse, when you run "make dist" you get: 
/usr/bin/perl -Iinc "-MExtUtils::Manifest=manicopy,maniread" \
        -e "manicopy(maniread(),'Mail-Mbox-MessageParser-1.21.0', 'bes
+t');"

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This means my only real option is to copy ExtUtils/Manifest.pm to inc/ and then modify it. Bleh. Instead, I've asked the author to provide support for escaped spaces in the MANIFEST.

In the meantime, I've done the following:

  1. comment out the lines in the MANIFEST that involve files with spaces
  2. Put the following at the end of Makefile.PL: 
      print "Fixing PREOP in the Makefile to copy files with spaces during
+ building\n";

  my $commands = q{; \$(CP) t/mailboxes/*\\\\ * \$(DISTVNAME)/t/mailbo
+xes; \$(CP) t/results/*\\\\ * \$(DISTVNAME)/t/results};

  system "$^X -pi -e 's|^(PREOP\\s*=.*)|\$1$commands|' Makefile";

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The above code should work for both ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Install.

In reply to Re^2: MANIFEST with spaces in filenames? by coppit
in thread MANIFEST with spaces in filenames? by coppit

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