The attached patch stops h2xs from generating an ABSTRACT section in the stub POD. The section generated currently reads: This should be the abstract for $module. The abstract is used when making PPD (Perl Package Description) files. If you don't want an ABSTRACT you should also edit Makefile.PL to remove the ABSTRACT_FROM option. This isn't true. When making PPD files, the abstract is extracted from the file specified by ABSTRACT_FROM by matching the pattern /^($package\s-\s)(.*)/, usually in the first line of the NAME section, as is (correctly) explained in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker manpage. An alternative solution would be to change the description of the ABSTRACT section that h2xs generates, but just having a section called ABSTRACT is confusing when MakeMaker has a different notion of what the ABSTRACT is. In fact, ExtUtils::MakeMaker documents another option - ABSTRACT - which can be used to specify the abstract directly, rather than retrieve it from a file, and re-iterates its notion that the abstract is a one-line description of the module. I therefore believe it is better not to have an ABSTRACT section in the POD. Cheers, SteveThread Next