These are CMake modules to be shared between LLVM projects strictly at build time. In other words, they must not be included from an installed CMake module, such as the Add*.cmake ones. Modules that are reachable from installed modules should instead go in ${project}/cmake/modules of the most upstream project that uses them.

The advantage of not putting these modules in an existing location like llvm/cmake/modules is two-fold:

• Since they are not installed, we don't have to worry about any out-of-tree downstream usage, and thus there is no need for stability.
• Since they are available as part of the source at build-time, we don't have to do the usual stand-alone vs combined-build dances, avoiding much complexity.

For tools, please do:

if(NOT DEFINED LLVM_COMMON_CMAKE_UTILS)
  set(LLVM_COMMON_CMAKE_UTILS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../cmake)
endif()

# Add path for custom modules.
list(INSERT CMAKE_MODULE_PATH 0
  # project-specific module dirs first
  "${LLVM_COMMON_CMAKE_UTILS}/Modules"
  )

Notes:

• The if(NOT DEFINED ...) guard is there because in combined builds, LLVM will set this variable. This is useful for legacy builds where projects are found in llvm/tools instead.
• INSERT ... 0 ensures these new entries are prepended to the front of the module path, so nothing might shadow them by mistake.

For runtime libs, we skip the if(NOT DEFINED part:

set(LLVM_COMMON_CMAKE_UTILS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../cmake)

... # same as before

If llvm/tools legacy-style combined builds are deprecated, we should then skip it everywhere, bringing the tools and runtimes boilerplate back in line.