Inconsistent dotnet build behaviour between configurations

[woodylaurence]

Describe the bug

Building application with project reference on another project seems to behave differently depending on which configuration you're building and whether you're building project alone or a solution file containing the project.
Unsure if this is a bug, or if I'm misunderstanding how solution files work and this is intended.

To Reproduce

Clone repo: https://github.com/woodylaurence/DotNetBuildIssueRepro.git

Create solution file and add the Application project to it:
dotnet new sln --name "solution_file"
dotnet sln solution_file.sln add Application/Application.csproj

Then build solution file in Release configuration and try and publish Application in same configuration:
dotnet build solution_file.sln --configuration Release
dotnet publish Application/Application.csproj --configuration Release --no-build

Get the following error:

/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk/8.0.110/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk/targets/Microsoft.NET.Publish.targets(351,5): error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "/home/laurence/RiderProjects/DotNetBuildIssueRepro/LibraryProject/bin/Release/net8.0/LibraryProject.dll" because it was not found. [/home/laurence/RiderProjects/DotNetBuildIssueRepro/Application/Application.csproj]

bin/Release/net8.0 folder is empty after this step, hence the error.

If you instead build and publish Application in Debug configuration everything works:
dotnet build solution_file.sln --configuration Debug
dotnet publish Application/Application.csproj --configuration Debug --no-build

If you clean up and then only build the project, rather than the solution, everything works:
dotnet clean Application/Application.csproj --configuration Release && dotnet clean LibraryProject/LibraryProject.csproj --configuration Release
dotnet build Application/Application.csproj --configuration Release
dotnet publish Application/Application.csproj --configuration Release --no-build

Exceptions (if any)

See above error message.

Further technical details

dotnet --info output:
.NET SDK:
Version: 8.0.110
Commit: 87a66bb3d1
Workload version: 8.0.100-manifests.9143487c

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: ubuntu
OS Version: 24.04
OS Platform: Linux
RID: ubuntu.24.04-x64
Base Path: /usr/lib/dotnet/sdk/8.0.110/

.NET workloads installed:
Workload version: 8.0.100-manifests.9143487c
There are no installed workloads to display.

Host:
Version: 8.0.10
Architecture: x64
Commit: 81cabf2857

.NET SDKs installed:
8.0.110 [/usr/lib/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.10 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
None

Environment variables:
Not set

global.json file:
Not found

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