[question] Can't use layouts when also using generators

Starting with the example editable project from https://github.com/conan-io/examples.git

cd examples/features/editable/cmake
perl -i -ne 's/add /add --layout=\$(readlink -f layout.ini) /g;print;' build.sh
# Now run the build.sh
./build.sh

If I look for the marker directory BLAHHHH I can’t find it anywhere. The code

    def generate(self):
        tc = CMakeToolchain(self)
        tc.generate()

Makes the layout file get ignored.

I don’t know how to get past this issue since I need to be able to configure the library location ( layout ) for an editable package AND I need to be able to use the generated conan_toolchain.cmake.

If I commented out the “def generate” …section, then the layout works BUT I don’t have the generated conan_toolchain.cmake file

Thanks for any help

layout.txt

• I’ve read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[purplefishies]

OK, got what you were saying. I just did

def layout(): 
    cmake_layout(self,src_folder="DIR")
    # Followed by 
    self.folders.build += "PACKAGE/src"

[purplefishies]

What is the best practice way of doing that ? Configuring at the conanfile.py level ?

I saw that there’s a way to customize it through custom_conf but I can’t find any examples to add multiple values without changing the layout.py file .