diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 44f789c592ba2..74608c6b8a39c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ jobs:
             tidy: false
             os: ubuntu-20.04-xl
             env: {}
+          - name: wasm32
+            os: ubuntu-20.04-xl
+            env: {}
     timeout-minutes: 600
     runs-on: "${{ matrix.os }}"
     steps:
diff --git a/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml b/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
index 11f1532bef594..f076ab2b07aa5 100644
--- a/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
+++ b/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ jobs:
             <<: *job-linux-xl
             tidy: false
 
+          - name: wasm32
+            <<: *job-linux-xl
+
   auto:
     permissions:
       actions: write # for rust-lang/simpleinfra/github-actions/cancel-outdated-builds
diff --git a/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/Makefile b/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3c1b725eefb7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+include ../../run-make-fulldeps/tools.mk
+
+ifeq ($(TARGET),wasm32-unknown-unknown)
+all:
+	$(RUSTC) foo.rs --crate-type cdylib --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -C linker=clang
+else
+all:
+endif
diff --git a/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/foo.rs b/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/foo.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4bd8276f34927
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/wasm-override-linker/foo.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// empty file