As Ken Williams grew tired of ExtUtils::MakeMaker & portability issues, he invented Module::Build, the designated successor of ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which is expected to run smoothly on most Operating Systems, because Module::Build takes advantage of creating Perl-valid syntax files only and does not rely upon crufty Makefiles, which are often subject to misinterpretation, because so many incompatible flavours of make exist out there in the wild. The current maintainer of ExtUtils::MakeMaker (Michael G. Schwern) elaborated about this problematic some more in his talk MakeMaker is DOOMED.