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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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Re^2: MANIFEST with spaces in filenames?
by coppit (Beadle) on Sep 16, 2004 at 04:11 UTC
    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.
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