Is there any way to evaluate (expand-file-name) in .dir-locals.el?

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Published on 2010-05-14T02:59:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 3:04 UTC
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I'm trying to move all my compilation config (compilation-command and compilation-directory to be exact) to .dir-locals.el file at the top of my project. It is working fine except that I can't find the way to use expand-file-name there and without it I have to use absolute path, which is not really convenient.

So, is there a way (or a dirty hack) to make local directory variables to evaluate values before assigning?

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