Error with Exe project dependency when setting -r in dotnet publish

[freddyrios]

With regular dependencies, running dotnet publish works: dotnet publish LoopControl -c Release -r [targetrid] --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true

However, when adding a dependency to a project that has its output set to Exe, the command fails with this message :

[pathtodotnetsdk]\9.0.101\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(266,5): error NETSDK1047: Assets file '[pathtodependency]\obj\project.assets.json' doesn't have a target for 'net8.0/[host-rid]'. Ensure that restore has run and that you have included 'net8.0' in the TargetFrameworks for your project. You may also need to include '[host-rid]' in your project's RuntimeIdentifiers.

Workaround: adding this to the dotnet publish line: -p:RuntimeIdentifiers=[targetrid]

That makes it work, but it should not be needed when one is already specifying the target via -r. It is of course far from obvious, so took a while to find the workaround.

[nagilson]

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/blob/feefffa8b55ea07c25881143eac9f46ee6ec5ffe/test/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tests/GlobalPropertyFlowTests.cs#L104C21-L104C48 @dsplaisted may you please investigate this, seems like an issue with property flow to exe reference projects? Not sure if we need to special case PublishSingleFile or if this configuration is incorrect in some way.