See e.g. https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mw-tools-phan-demos-publish/349/console for r1080409:
+ emconfigure ./configure --disable-all --disable-cgi --disable-cli --disable-rpath --disable-phpdbg --with-valgrind=no --without-pear --without-valgrind --without-pcre-jit --with-layout=GNU --enable-ast --enable-bcmath --enable-ctype --enable-embed=static --enable-filter --enable-json --enable-phar --enable-mbstring --disable-mbregex --enable-tokenizer configure: ./configure --disable-all --disable-cgi --disable-cli --disable-rpath --disable-phpdbg --with-valgrind=no --without-pear --without-valgrind --without-pcre-jit --with-layout=GNU --enable-ast --enable-bcmath --enable-ctype --enable-embed=static --enable-filter --enable-json --enable-phar --enable-mbstring --disable-mbregex --enable-tokenizer checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu shtool:echo:Warning: unable to determine terminal sequence for bold mode shtool:echo:Warning: unable to determine terminal sequence for bold mode checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/srv/demo/php-7.4.16': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details emconfigure: error: './configure --disable-all --disable-cgi --disable-cli --disable-rpath --disable-phpdbg --with-valgrind=no --without-pear --without-valgrind --without-pcre-jit --with-layout=GNU --enable-ast --enable-bcmath --enable-ctype --enable-embed=static --enable-filter --enable-json --enable-phar --enable-mbstring --disable-mbregex --enable-tokenizer' failed (1)