I need to auto-generate a mostly static HTML site and I am trying to get to grips with HTML::Mason and the example they give in the handbook. When I run the following code:-

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;  # Always use strict!

  use Cwd;
  use File::Basename;
  use File::Find;
  use File::Path;
  use File::Spec;
  use HTML::Mason;

  # These are directories.  The canonpath method removes any cruft
  # like doubled slashes.
  my ($source, $target) = map { File::Spec->canonpath($_) } @ARGV;

  die "Need a source and target\n"
      unless defined $source && defined $target;

  # Make target absolute because File::Find changes the current workin
+g
  # directory as it runs.
  $target = File::Spec->rel2abs($target);

  my $interp =
      #HTML::Mason::Interp->new( comp_root => '/export/home/set/script
+s/perl/site_build/base_dir/lib' );
      HTML::Mason::Interp->new( comp_root => File::Spec->rel2abs(cwd) 
+);

  find( \&convert, $source );

  sub convert {
      # We don't want to try to convert our autohandler or .mas
      # components.  $_ contains the filename
      return unless /\.html$/;

      my $buffer;
      # This will save the component's output in $buffer
      $interp->out_method(\$buffer);

      # We want to split the path to the file into its components and
      # join them back together with a forward slash in order to make
      # a component path for Mason
      #
      # $File::Find::name has the path to the file we are looking at,
      # relative to the starting directory
      my $comp_path = join '/', File::Spec->splitdir($File::Find::name
+);

      $interp->exec("/$comp_path");
      # Strip off leading part of path that matches source directory
      my $name = $File::Find::name;
      $name =~ s/^$source//;

      # Generate absolute path to output file
      my $out_file = File::Spec->catfile( $target, $name );
      # In case the directory doesn't exist, we make it
      mkpath(dirname($out_file));

      local *RESULT;
      open RESULT, "> $out_file" or die "Cannot write to $out_file: $!
+";
      print RESULT $buffer or die "Cannot write to $out_file: $!";
      close RESULT or die "Cannot close $out_file: $!";
  }
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With the following parameters:-

./gen* /export/home/set/scripts/perl/site_build/base_dir/htdocs/review
+s /tmp
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I get the following error:-

Your component path (/export/home/set/scripts/perl/site_build/base_dir
+/htdocs/reviews/test.html) matches a real file on disk (/export/home/
+set/scripts/perl/site_build/base_dir/htdocs/reviews/test.html).  Have
+ you read about the component root in the Administrator's Manual (HTM
+L::Mason::Admin)? at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/
+Resolver/File.pm line 91.
could not find component for initial path '/export/home/set/scripts/pe
+rl/site_build/base_dir/htdocs/reviews/test.html'

Stack:
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Exception/Class.pm:153]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:226]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:166]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Class/Container.pm:265]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Class/Container.pm:343]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:232]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:226]
  [./generate_html.pl:46]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm:849]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm:666]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm:1160]
  [./generate_html.pl:27]

Stack:
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:281]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:385]
  [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:351]
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I dont know enough yet to identify what the issue is - but as I am running it out of the box as it were I thought others might also have had the same issue and could point me in the right direction.

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