test_runner: add env option to run function #2525

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 30s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	39m 15s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	34m 57s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	29m 27s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	53m 7s
	2h 38m 16s

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