From 5f79b2c9c733c9083138a5c478299c2d4ef50db5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:21:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [msbuild] Add a condition to make sure empty item groups
 aren't processed.

This is a workaround for https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/4056.

Fixes https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/2903015.
---
 msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets b/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
index 69f0d271c91f..75e4bb71a1e1 100644
--- a/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
+++ b/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
@@ -2945,7 +2945,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2018 Microsoft. All rights reserved.
 			<!-- add frameworks, with the path relative to the app bundle -->
 			<!-- Use _FilteredFrameworkToPublish (from the _ComputeFrameworkFilesToPublish target) to only include dynamic frameworks
 			     that will actually be present in the app bundle. Ref: https://github.com/dotnet/macios/issues/24840 -->
-			<_PostProcessingItem Include="@(_FilteredFrameworkToPublish->'$(_AppBundleName)$(AppBundleExtension)/$(_AppFrameworksRelativePath)%(Filename)%(Extension).framework/%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
+			<!-- The condition is necessary due to https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/4056 -->
+			<_PostProcessingItem Condition="@(_FilteredFrameworkToPublish->Count()) &gt; 0" Include="@(_FilteredFrameworkToPublish->'$(_AppBundleName)$(AppBundleExtension)/$(_AppFrameworksRelativePath)%(Filename)%(Extension).framework/%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
 				<!-- Store where this item came from -->
 				<ItemSourcePath>%(Identity)</ItemSourcePath>
 				<!-- If the item in question came with a .dSYM directory, this would be the path to it: -->