In cmake, dependencies on generated files require some sophistication in the build system. At build time, files are parsed to determine which headers they depend on and these dependencies are injected into the build system. This works well with ninja, but has some constraints with the makefile generator. According to the cmake documentation, this only works reliably within the same directory.
This patch expands the usage of mlir-headers to include all generated headers and adds an mlir-generic-headers target which triggers generation of dialect-independent headers. These targets are used to express dependencies on generated headers. This is mostly handled in AddMLIR.cmake and only a few CMakeLists.txt files need to change.
Wonder if it would be easier to just have our own add_public_mlir_tablegen_target that does this automatically.