diff --git a/UPGRADING.INTERNALS b/UPGRADING.INTERNALS
index 84aeb202b8ca6..1083b15617ecc 100644
--- a/UPGRADING.INTERNALS
+++ b/UPGRADING.INTERNALS
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ PHP 8.4 INTERNALS UPGRADE NOTES
    - Autoconf macros PHP_NEW_EXTENSION, PHP_ADD_SOURCES, PHP_ADD_SOURCES_X,
      PHP_SELECT_SAPI now have the source files and flags arguments normalized so
      the list of items can be passed as a blank-or-newline-separated list.
+   - Autoconf macro PHP_ADD_INCLUDE now takes also a blank-or-newline-separated
+     list of include directories instead of a single directory. The "prepend"
+     argument is validated at Autoconf compile time.
    - TSRM/tsrm.m4 file and its TSRM_CHECK_PTHREADS macro have been removed.
    - Added pkg-config support to find libpq for the pdo_pgsql and pgsql
      extensions. The libpq paths can be customized with the PGSQL_CFLAGS and
diff --git a/build/php.m4 b/build/php.m4
index ad2bfd0ac3f01..82c662cc92cba 100644
--- a/build/php.m4
+++ b/build/php.m4
@@ -467,21 +467,20 @@ AC_DEFUN([PHP_UTILIZE_RPATHS],[
 ])
 
 dnl
-dnl PHP_ADD_INCLUDE(path [,before])
-dnl
-dnl Add an include path. If before is 1, add in the beginning of INCLUDES.
-dnl
-AC_DEFUN([PHP_ADD_INCLUDE],[
-  if test "$1" != "/usr/include"; then
-    PHP_EXPAND_PATH($1, ai_p)
-    PHP_RUN_ONCE(INCLUDEPATH, $ai_p, [
-      if test "$2"; then
-        INCLUDES="-I$ai_p $INCLUDES"
-      else
-        INCLUDES="$INCLUDES -I$ai_p"
-      fi
-    ])
-  fi
+dnl PHP_ADD_INCLUDE(paths [,prepend])
+dnl
+dnl Add blank-or-newline-separated list of include paths. If "prepend" is given,
+dnl paths are prepended to the beginning of INCLUDES.
+dnl
+AC_DEFUN([PHP_ADD_INCLUDE], [
+for include_path in m4_normalize(m4_expand([$1])); do
+  AS_IF([test "$include_path" != "/usr/include"], [
+    PHP_EXPAND_PATH([$include_path], [ai_p])
+    PHP_RUN_ONCE([INCLUDEPATH], [$ai_p], [m4_ifnblank([$2],
+      [INCLUDES="-I$ai_p $INCLUDES"],
+      [INCLUDES="$INCLUDES -I$ai_p"])])
+  ])
+done
 ])
 
 dnl