Currently the functional tests require the wallet module to be compiled into the Bitcoin Core executable. For example the premine (or datadir cache) to speed up tests when run in parallel would mine a bunch of blocks and store the private keys to sign the coinbase tx outputs in a wallet. There is no need to have the overhead of the whole wallet module by using keys that are deterministic for all runs.
Note that this change most likely requires the ./test/cache/
to be cleared.