A longstanding problem has been reported on this list
but never solved or commented on.  One person wrote:

   When attempting to install CPAN modules using Cygwin's make,
   I get "missing separator" errors.  It always happens in the
   pm_to_blib section, which I've copied below.  I've flagged
   the line in particular that generates the error.  Any help?

Is there a secret fix?  Has ActiveState noticed?

For earlier references, see
http://mailarchive.activestate.com/mail/msg/activeperl:429214
(December 2000)
http://mailarchive.activestate.com/mail/msg/activeperl:276647
(August 2000)
http://mailarchive.activestate.com/mail/msg/perl-win32-users:278546
(July 2000)
http://mailarchive.activestate.com/mail/msg/perl-win32-users:267155
(December 1999)
http://mailarchive.activestate.com/mail/msg/perl-win32-users:205205
(February 1999)
and others...

Here's the problem:

# --- MakeMaker pm_to_blib section:

pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)
        @$(PERL) "-I$(INST_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(INST_LIB)"    "-I$(PERL_ARCHLIB)"
"-I$(PERL_LIB)" -MExtUtils::Install         -e "pm_to_blib(qw[ <<pmfiles.dat
],'$(INST_LIB)\auto')"

$(PM_TO_BLIB)
<<
        @$(TOUCH) $@

[ when I run it, the line above ${PM_TO_BLIB} is empty
except for a tab, which is invalid syntax for a make file.
This is evidently a bug.  Removing the lines doesn't
solve it for me.  Running the script results in other errors. ]
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