I've posted a solution on PerlMonks at the following: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=943766
It involves adding a CONFIGURE_REQUIRES directive to the Makefile.PL's WriteMakefile() call. The directive should specify Inline::MakeMaker, and also a fairly recent version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The latter isn't strictly required, but by upgrading to a recent version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker the target system won't spit out a warning about not recognizing the CONFIGURE_REQUIRES directive. The directive's primary effect is to add a 'configure_requires' section to META.yml and META.json that is interpreted by 'cpan', 'cpan', and 'cpanp' such that they will pull in these dependencies prior to attempting to run Makefile.PL. Thanks! Dave -- David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com