ci: Allow ninja to be used during unit test (#20742)

ci: Allow ninja to be used during unit test (#20742)

* Remove make dependency

* Added option to specify Ninja generator

* use ninja-build as default for several CI

* Revert "use ninja-build as default for several CI"

This reverts commit f552c4559b85e222aab37f654da764af4283fee7.

* changed use plain string rather than arrays

* Enabled ninja build by default for experimentation

* ci: add run.sh to test conditions to trigger GitHub CI and self-hosted runners

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* Enabled ninja build by default on self-hosted envs for experimentation

* ci: revert generator to ninja instead of ninja multi-config

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* ci: install ninja-build for self-hosted workflows

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* ci: revert ninja from self-hosted runners

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* ci: missed one self-hosted step

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* ci: fix windows ci errors from an errenous revert

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* Added explicit build types for Ninja

Also reverted some needless change

* ci: use ninja multi-config for vulkan-x64 build

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* added time command to measure build time

* Keeping some configs to use Ninja which show improvement

* minor fix based on review

Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
* ci: rm `time` from custom containers

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
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Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <redacted>