[build] Make the RegexParser requirement to build ASTGen explicit #77229
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This makes the requirement to have RegexParser build enabled more obvious to someone not familiar with ASTGen.
This also removes the dummy target that was triggering build failures: certain Swift code in ASTGen was using
#if canImport(_CompilerRegexParser)to determine whether RegexParser is available, and the dummy target was causing this to always resolve to true. That obscured the underlying reason for compilation errors: