VS 2017 MVC Core 2.0 publish fails

Scenario
Publish a MVC Core 2.0 project in Visual Studio 2017

Error
Severity
Error
Code
The command ""bin\Release\net461\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.ViewCompilation-x86.exe"
Description
@"obj\Release\net461\microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.razor.viewcompilation.rsp"" exited with code 1

Solution
Open the .csproj file in a text editor
In the section set the MvcRazorCompileOnPublish tag as false:
      <mvcrazorcompileonpublish>false</mvcrazorcompileonpublish>