configure: error: could not determine link -lib interface

[lava114514]

$ ./configure
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
checking build system type... aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for cygwin development environment... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... gcc
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... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ar... no
checking for lib... no
checking for link... link -lib
checking the archiver (link -lib) interface... unknown
configure: error: could not determine link -lib interface

[fklassen]

I haven't seen this before. What is your OS, platform, setup, version etc?