In theory, every Good distribution behaves well in absence of a terminal/user. This is by virtue of using ExtUtils::MakeMaker's prompt function, which knows to return the default value when there is no user to answer the question.

In practice, there are bad apples that ask the same question over and over again, providing no default and not realizing that there is nobody there to answer. Such distributions will hopefully become rarer and rarer.

The ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation says to set $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} to a true value to make EU:MM skip the questions. I guess that Module::Build, as incompatible as it may be otherwise, also adheres to this standard.