Manpage generation is handled by manifypods() in MM_Unix.pm. This method *simply* returns string. You want to return a different text string however you probably don't want to try a manual edit. Implicit to the docs is that a method called MY::manifypods will be called instead of MM_Unix::manifypods with the same argument list as the original. As a result the easiest way to do this is:

sub MY::manifypods {
    
    # cut and paste the manifypods code from MM_Unix here
    # in its entirity

    # pod2man is being called in the ugly looking lines that start

        $pod2man_exe = "-S pod2man"; # <<-- edit this
    }
    push @m,
    qq[POD2MAN_EXE = pod2man_exe\n],
    qq[POD2MAN = \${PERL} -we '.....
    # what this horrid looking code is doing is building
    # up a series of command line perl scripts which then
    # get executed, so by changing  the value of $pod2man_exe
    # you call pod2man with the appropriate flags which
    # should do the trick (I think :-)

    # finish with the join just like in MM_Unix.pm

  return join'', @m;  # this returns the string
}
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tachyon

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