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cmake: make test-ci target skip building dependencies
Make `test-ci` not depend on the `testdeps` target.

`test-ci` is designed to run curl tests in CI. In CI we build all
necessary dependencies explicitly beforehand, and they are always ready
when calling the `test-ci` step. Thus, it isn't necessary to enforce
them via a dependency rule. Dropping it saves redundant work and delay
in CI jobs.

The `testdeps` dependency should not normally be a problem. It's
supposed to be a no-op if those targets are already built. In practice
however, it causes a delay and/or an actual rebuild of those
dependencies depending on generator (= build tool) used and other
factors.

As observed in the GHA/windows workflow, the `testdeps` dependency:

- with Ninja, causes no delay, and no extra work:
  https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10980099984/job/30485440389#step:25:18

- with GNU Make, caused a re-evaluation of `testdeps` targets,
  but did not actually rebuild them. This re-evaluation took a
  noticeable time (esp. with non-bundled tests):
  https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10980099984/job/30485440155#step:14:11 (with bundles)
  https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10973851013/job/30471690331#step:14:11 (w/o bundles)
  verbose: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10980506956/job/30486434629#step:14:13

- with MSBuild, caused a re-evaluation of `testdeps` targets, and
  triggered a _rebuild_:
  https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10980099984/job/30485435968#step:14:19 (with bundles)
  https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10973851013/job/30471689714#step:14:19 (w/o bundles)
  verbose: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/10980506956/job/30486436368#step:14:48
  It's suspected that our use of
  `-DCMAKE_VS_GLOBALS=TrackFileAccess=false` in CI is contributing to
  this. This option is supposed to affect incremental builds only. For
  some reason it affects CI builds too, even though they are not
  incremental, and no sources are changed between build steps.
  Reported-by: Aki Sakurai
  Ref: #14999

Notice that `test-*` targets depending on `testdeps` is NOT sufficient
to build everything to run tests, e.g. it misses to build the curl tool,
which is essential. This is also true for autotools' `test-ci` target
which misses to build libcurl and the curl tool.

Perhaps it'd be best to drop `testdeps` as a dependency for _all_
`test-*` targets and make it official to require building dependencies
manually. Alternatively these targets could be fixed to rebuild
everything necessary to run tests.

Closes #15001
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