Building modules without building man-pages

Hello all.  I'd like to build a set of modules without building
man-pages.  I tried this:

  perl Makefile.PL MAN3PODS=\{\} && make

But that didn't work:

  Can't use string ("{}") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 503.

I'd like to do this to shorten the build time for Krang
(http://krang.sf.net).  Krang builds its required modules from source
but doesn't need man-pages.

Any ideas?

-sam