Monks, I have searched for an answer to this, but I have not been able to find an answer. Is there a way to tell CPAN when starting the shell up to use Module::Build instead of the traditional MakeFile.PL for this session and also apply it to any module dependencies that will need to be installed?

I have run into a limitation on windows xp with strawberry perl where certain modules will not install because the lines in the makefile exceed the length that can be handled by dmake.exe.

The author told me to use Build.PL, but I only know how to do this on the commandline for a single module. Since the modules I am looking at have dependencies, I am hoping to find a way to change the preferences of CPAN for a session to choose the Build.PL if it exists over the MakeFile.PL.

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