Set up CMake configure dependencies on all JSON files used in the configuration #409
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Summary of changes
🚨 Huge quality of life improvement!🚨
One of my biggest gripes with Mbed's build system in my last few years as a developer is the need to manually trigger Python configuration (by deleting mbed_config.cmake or doing a full reconfigure) after editing certain json files, such as targets.json5 or any mbed_lib.json files in the source tree.
This MR fixes that huge annoyance properly by having the Python scripts output a full list of all JSON files used in the build, then setting a CMake configure dependency on those files. Changing them will cause CMake to get rerun, and when the build script notices that the timestamp has changed on any of the files, it will automatically rerun the Python configuration. Bam! No more manually tracking what we have edited and whether it requires a full reconfigure.
Impact of changes
Migration actions required
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Test results
Tested locally and it is able to track dependencies!