In a previous incarnation, I persuaded make to do almost the same thing as you require - AFAIR, it was along the lines of ...

MODULES = module-a-1.0 module-b-1.1

all:
  perl -e '\
    foreach ((qw/$(MODULES)/)) {\
      chdir($$_) or die("chdir($$_) failed - $$!");\
      system("perl Makefile.PL");\
      system("$(MAKE) test install");\
    }\
  '
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• As the host machine was air-gapped from the intraweb, direct installation from CPAN wasn't an option - hence all modules had previously been downloaded.
• I was lucky in as much as all the modules I required used the Makefile.PL method of creation.
• I used perl in the make script since this was written for use on a Windoze machine.

HTH

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