diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index efa0cdfc163..ed3e1b8a07c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -700,6 +700,15 @@ add_subdirectory(lib/TableGen)
 
 add_subdirectory(utils/TableGen)
 
+# Force target to be built as soon as possible. Clang modules builds depend
+# header-wise on it as they ship all headers from the umbrella folders. Building
+# an entire module might include header, which depends on intrinsics_gen. This
+# should be right after LLVMSupport and LLVMTableGen otherwise we introduce a
+# circular dependence.
+if (LLVM_ENABLE_MODULES)
+  list(APPEND LLVM_COMMON_DEPENDS intrinsics_gen)
+endif(LLVM_ENABLE_MODULES)
+
 add_subdirectory(include/llvm)
 
 add_subdirectory(lib)