docker-compose is unable to locate env files from inside of runner

Summary

docker-compose is unable to locate env file specified with --env-file flag

Steps to reproduce

1. Create env file on host machine (my exapmle: /usr/src/.env)
2. Add --env-file flag with absolute path to stage script (my example: docker-compose --env-file /usr/src/.env up -d --build)
3. Run job, it fails

.gitlab-ci.yml

image: docker

services:
  - docker:dind

stages:
  - test
  - deploy

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo no tests configured, skipping test stage

deploy-prod:
  stage: deploy
  only:
    - dev
  script:
    - docker-compose --env-file /usr/src/.env up -d --build
  environment: production

Actual behavior

Job stops when fails to find env file

Expected behavior

Find env file and use it

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

job log

Executing "step_script" stage of the job script 00:01
Using docker image sha256:72c285f303399730d4e93bae2689334904979fdcc4acd2279377b38079ad31fc for docker with digest docker@sha256:b2343859b009730168704bf04dd705291539db39df5ccf840a91b647b72009fe ...
$ docker-compose --env-file /usr/src/.env up -d --build
Couldn't find env file: /usr/src/.env
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables 00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Environment description

config.toml contents

concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0

[session_server]
  session_timeout = 1800

[[runners]]
  name = "zoro-production"
  url = "https://gitlab.com/"
  id = 17955357
  token = "Y41aSkMayazH1W4B_hTs"
  token_obtained_at = 2022-10-06T21:01:02Z
  token_expires_at = 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
  executor = "docker"
  [runners.custom_build_dir]
  [runners.cache]
    [runners.cache.s3]
    [runners.cache.gcs]
    [runners.cache.azure]
  [runners.docker]
    tls_verify = false
    image = "ruby:2.7"
    privileged = true
    disable_entrypoint_overwrite = false
    oom_kill_disable = false
    disable_cache = false
    volumes = ["/cache", "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"]
    shm_size = 0

Used GitLab Runner version

Version:      15.4.0
Git revision: 43b2dc3d
Git branch:   15-4-stable
GO version:   go1.17.9
Built:        2022-09-20T22:38:36+0000
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Possible fixes