In #928, --build (-b) flag is automatically enabled when references is not empty, but there seems to be some configuration error that makes the typecheck fail with Referenced project '[PATH]' may not disable emit., but emits for the referenced projects is enabled and can be run with tsc -b from other projects just fine.
The error seems to affect legacy users only, if the user opt-in to use the new TS Project References, nuxt typecheck (vue-tsc -b) is able to complete without error.
The error is able to reproduce in older version of Nuxt (prior to alpha-4 / rc, which have the updated @nuxt/cli) by using vue-tsc -b directly.
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