Yarn local workspaces no longer working - fails on Preparing native dependencies
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### Electron Forge version
7.4.0
### Electron version
30.0.3
### Operating system
Windows 10
### Last known working Electron Forge version
7.2.0
### Expected behavior
I had an issue #3388 about using yarn workspaces for a monorepo where the my electron app depends on other local workspace packages. At the time 7.2.0 was out and @easternmotors was able to show me how to configure yarn to get it to build using the `workspaces:` protocol.
Upgrading that test repo to 7.4.0, it now crashes on the "Preparing native dependencies" step.

I'm new to yarn but it doesn't appear to output any error on the crash. Running `make` with npm instead crashes on the same step and provides an unhelp generic error:
```
npm ERR! Lifecycle script `make` failed with error:
npm ERR! Error: command failed
npm ERR! in workspace: electron-app@1.0.0
npm ERR! at location: C:\Users\joeja\projects\yarn-electron-workspaces\packages\electron-app
```
This test repo is just an electron app created with the command `yarn create electron-app electron-app --template vite` and a local workspace test package added to its dependencies, so very easy to repeat.
### Actual behavior
It should build when a local workspace is used as a dependency
### Steps to reproduce
I have two repo to simulate it was working on 7.2 and failing on 7.4:
### 7.4.0 Fail Test Repo
1. Clone test repo using electron-forge 7.4.0:
https://github.com/joezappie/yarn-electron-workspaces/tree/bug/electron-forge-make
2. Run `yarn workspace electron-app make'
3. See that it crashes on the `Preparing native dependencies` step
### 7.2.0 Success Test Repo
1. Clone test repo using electron-forge 7.2.0:
https://github.com/joezappie/yarn-electron-workspaces
2. Run `yarn workspace electron-app make'
3. See that it successfully builds
### Additional information
I tried 7.3.0/7.3.1 but I run into an an error saying `electron-forge/plugin-vite` needed to be in my dev dependencies, despite being in it so I gave up on those versions. Not sure if its 7.3 or 7.4 that broke the module resolution of local workspaces dependencies.
Is there now a different way of needing to do this?
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