The helper is like ::getenv() but checks if the variable exists and
throws descriptive exception. So instead of
fatal error: in "...": std::logic_error: basic_string: construction from null is not valid
one could get something like
fatal error: in "...": std::logic_error: Environment variable ... not set
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@scylladb.com>