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On Aug 18, 9:59=A0pm, Sumit Narayan <sumna...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This is what I did:
>
> Added
> ((nil . ((setq compile-command "cd <project root directory>; make"))))
> in <project root directory>/.dir-locals.el.
>
> [does not work]

According to the info doc, the syntax is similar to a let-list.
So, delete the 'setq' and it should work.



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