How to set Docker Compose `env_file` relative to `.yml` file when multiple `--file` option is used?-CodePudding

I am trying to set my env_file configuration to be relative to each of the multiple docker-compose.yml file locations instead of relative to the first docker-compose.yml.

The documentation (https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3/#env_file) suggests this should be possible:

If you have specified a Compose file with docker-compose -f FILE, paths in env_file are relative to the directory that file is in.

For example, when I issue

docker compose \
  --file docker-compose.yml \
  --file backend/docker-compose.yml \
  --file docker-compose.override.yml up

all of the env_file paths in the second (i.e. backend/docker-compose.yml) and third (i.e. docker-compose.override.yml) are relative to the location of the first file (i.e. docker-compose.yml)

I would like to have the env_file settings in each docker-compose.yml file to be relative to the file that it is defined in.

Is this possible?

Thank you for your time