I am using TFS 2010 and trying to build a .NET 2.0 project on either of two Windows Server 2008 (x86) build machines. The build machines have .NET versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and Windows SDK 7.0A installed (along with TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010).
Since some seemingly minor refactoring changes this week, the project builds are now always marked as partially succeeded: although the compilation finishes with no errors, TFS encounters seven Tracker.exe errors. For example, in the build summary, the following report is shown:
Other Errors and Warnings
7 error(s), 0 warning(s)
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
Tracker.exe: Response file C:\Users\Builder\AppData\Local\Temp\5647f0a8ac7a4d53b87a8c2ebca3c4f5.rsp not found.
The conventional fix for Tracker.exe errors is to disable incremental builds by passing /p:TrackFileAccess=false to MSBuild or by adding TrackFileAccess=false to the configuration settings in the MSBuild project. In the past, this has always fixed Tracker.exe issues.
However, this time the Tracker.exe errors still occur, even though there is no longer a need to track changes after turning TrackFileAccess off. I even went as far as to rename C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\Tracker.exe on the build machine — and the error still occurred (I was expecting an error to say that Tracker.exe could not be found).
What could be going on here? I’ve searched the build machine’s file system for other copies of Tracker.exe. Could it be that a build definition or MSBuild project settings are getting overridden? Thanks!
Is this related to WiX in some way? I only get these in my release build. this is your msdn link?