Embedding manifest error in visual studio build

Question

When building C++ programs with VS2008 I occasionally get the following error message

1>Linking...
1>Embedding manifest...
1>Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 31 returned from 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\mt.exe'.

Restarting the build is almost always successful, so it is a mere nuisance.

I am curious as to what is going on.

Answer 1

See the earlier question on this topic here.