emconfigure fails inside "type": "module" package

[aduh95]

Repro:

$ echo '{"type":"module"}' > package.json
$ curl -L https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_2_10/expat-2.2.10.tar.xz | tar -xJ
$ cd expat-2.2.10
$ emconfigure ./configure
configure: ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin20.3.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin20.3.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... conftools/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... …/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/emcc
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 `…/expat-2.2.10':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details

And in config.log:

configure:3744: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3752: …/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/emcc -o conftest    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3756: $? = 0
configure:3763: ./conftest
(node:90074) ExperimentalWarning: The ESM module loader is experimental.
internal/modules/run_main.js:54
    internalBinding('errors').triggerUncaughtException(
                              ^

TypeError [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension "" for …/expat-2.2.10/conftest
    at Loader.defaultGetFormat [as _getFormat] (internal/modules/esm/get_format.js:65:15)
    at Loader.getFormat (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:113:42)
    at Loader.getModuleJob (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:244:31)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
    at async Loader.import (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:178:17) {
  code: 'ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION'
}
configure:3767: $? = 1
configure:3774: error: in `…/expat-2.2.10':
configure:3776: error: cannot run C compiled programs.

This could be solved if emconfigure added a package.json file in the current directory:

{ "type" : "commonjs" }

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[shamrin]

@aduh95 I've stumbled upon a similar problem in #17431. Library is different, symptoms are different. But the underlying cause and the exception in config.log are the same.

[sbc100]

I see, it looks like the "#!" line that runs the emscripten "executables" under node is effected by package.json files. I guess we could/should override that in the #!?

[dsogari]

Please see my #17451 (comment) for a possible fix.