I've been able to use spaces and other meaningful punctuation in my paths for decades now

Well ... spaces don't work for me ... and although I don't need it to work for me, I'd be most interested to learn how you've achieved it.

First up, I put a build of ActivePerl 5.8.8 (build 822) in:

C:\_32\with spaces\perl
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and I placed a copy of the Math-FFT-1.28 source in

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28
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and I tried to build Math-FFT-1.28 (using the above mentioned build of perl). If I use dmake, 'perl Makefile.PL' runs ok, but 'dmake' fails immediately with:

dmake:  Error: -- `C:\_32\with' not found, and can't be made
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So I ran 'dmake realclean' and then set things up to use 'nmake' instead of 'dmake'. Again, 'perl Makefile.PL' runs fine, but 'nmake' croaks immediately with:

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\_32\with'
Stop.
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Below my sig is a copy'n'paste of what I did. How have you got around these problems ? (An answer to that could put us well on the way to coming up with a patch for Inline.)

Cheers,
Rob

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>perl -V:make
make='dmake';

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>perl makefile.PL
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw32 special)
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Math::FFT

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>dmake
dmake:  Error: -- `C:\_32\with' not found, and can't be made

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>dmake realclean
.
[snipped - nothing of interest here]
.

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>set PATH=C:\_32\nmake;%path%

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>perl -V:make
make='nmake';

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>perl Makefile.PL
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw32 special)
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Math::FFT

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.9466
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\_32\with'
Stop.

C:\_32\with spaces\Math-FFT-1.28>
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