I can see several benefits to its presence in the output:
1) educational
2) as a starting point for a new PHP compilation ... basically get that line, 
modify what you need and you'll be able to recompile PHP


Below a sample output from a CentOS 5 installation:

# php -i
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.1.6

System => Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 
07:39:04 EST 2010 i686
Build Date => Jan 13 2010 17:05:38
Configure Command =>  './configure' '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' 
'--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' 
'--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' 
'--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib' 
'--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' 
'--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' 
'--with-curl' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' 
'--with-png-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--without-gdbm' 
'--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' 
'--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-pspell' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' 
'--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' 
'--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' 
'--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-track-vars' 
'--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' 
'--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-memory-limit' 
'--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' 
'--with-mime-magic=/usr/share/file/magic.mime' '--without-sqlite' 
'--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-system-tzdata' 
'--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-pcntl' '--with-imap=shared' 
'--with-imap-ssl' '--enable-mbstring=shared' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' 
'--enable-mbregex' '--with-ncurses=shared' '--with-gd=shared' 
'--enable-bcmath=shared' '--enable-dba=shared' '--with-db4=/usr' 
'--with-xmlrpc=shared' '--with-ldap=shared' '--with-ldap-sasl' 
'--with-mysql=shared,/usr' '--with-mysqli=shared,/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config' 
'--enable-dom=shared' '--with-dom-xslt=/usr' '--with-dom-exslt=/usr' 
'--with-pgsql=shared' '--with-snmp=shared,/usr' '--enable-soap=shared' 
'--with-xsl=shared,/usr' '--enable-xmlreader=shared' 
'--enable-xmlwriter=shared' '--enable-fastcgi' '--enable-pdo=shared' 
'--with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr' 
'--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config' 
'--with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/usr' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared,/usr' 
'--enable-dbase=shared'

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516061
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