Though this has been already resolved but let me send it here for the
next person
who might fall in this trap

I got the error message  "Makefile:1457: *** multiple target patterns.
Stop." when I
was trying to add a Makefile.PL to Bugzilla.

The problem was that Bugzilla has its modules from the root directory
and there is a
lib/ subdirectory that is the target location of 3rd party CPAN
modules installed for Bugzilla.
Specifically I had a a bunch of lib/man/man3/*.3pm files.

So when I tried to run

perl Makefile.PL
make

I got the above error message.

Once I removed those files the standard module installation process went well.

Gabor

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