problems with CPAN

Hi.
I understand that this is not properly speaking a mod_perl issue, more like a perl/cpan 
issue under Windows.
But before I go subscribe to a couple more lists, maybe someone on this list has a clue 
and can help ?

I recently update perl on my venerable Windows XP laptop, from ActivePerl 5.8 to 5.16, 
then reverted to 5.14, then finally switched to Strawberry Perl 5.16 :

perl -v :
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
...

The reason for these multiple switches was the difficulty in getting pre-compiled binary 
modules for some of the versions above (including mod_perl).

Anyway, in the course of the above tribulations, I did encounter at some point the same 
issue as below, and I wonder where the problem really is.
I am providing the full trace, but you can see the main issue in the last 10 lines : at 
some point, there is a message like :

C:sperlperlbinperl.exe: not found

and after that nothing works anymore.
In this case, C:\sperl\perl\bin\perl.exe points to the installation directory of 
StrawbwerryPerl v5.16.3. But I've seen the same issue before with ActivePerl installed, so 
I presume that the real problem is somewhere in the CPAN modules themselves or in dmake or 
in the make files.  Looks like something is interpreting this path like a "string" instead 
of a 'string', and unescaping the backslashes.
But I'm just a user of perl,and I don't really know how these things are supposed to work.
Does someone here know ?



C:\WINDOWS>cpan MIME::Lite
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.202)
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.04)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9725)
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.39)
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Creating database file ...
Done!Running install for module 'MIME::Lite'
Running make for R/RJ/RJBS/MIME-Lite-3.029.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/MIME-Lite-3.029.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.84)
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/CHECKSUMS
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.06)
Checksum for C:\sperl\cpan\sources\authors\id\R\RJ\RJBS\MIME-Lite-3.029.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.90)
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4404)
CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.120921)
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.83)

   CPAN.pm: Building R/RJ/RJBS/MIME-Lite-3.029.tar.gz

MIME::Lite is designed to take advantage of a variety of external modules
if they are not present then MIME::Lite will attempt to do its best
but its strongly recommend that you install them.

These modules are:
         MIME::Types
         Mail::Address
I can add these modules to the prereq list which will cause the files to be
automatically installed if they aren't already present
Add prereqs? [Yes]
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Email::Date::Format 1.000 not found.
Warning: prerequisite MIME::Types 1.28 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Mail::Address 1.62 not found.
Writing Makefile for MIME::Lite
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----        RJBS/MIME-Lite-3.029.tar.gz       ----
     Email::Date::Format [requires]
     Mail::Address [requires]
     MIME::Types [requires]
Running make test
   Delayed until after prerequisites
Running make install
   Delayed until after prerequisites
Running install for module 'Email::Date::Format'
Running make for R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Date-Format-1.002.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Date-Format-1.002.tar.gz
Checksum for C:\sperl\cpan\sources\authors\id\R\RJ\RJBS\Email-Date-Format-1.002.tar.gz ok

   CPAN.pm: Building R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Date-Format-1.002.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Email::Date::Format
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
C:sperlperlbinperl.exe: not found
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'blib\lib\Email\Date\.exists'
   RJBS/Email-Date-Format-1.002.tar.gz
   C:\sperl\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
   Can't test without successful make
Running make install
   Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Email::Date::Format'.

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