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 Example:
 ```bash
-cmake -DPREFERRED_LLVM_VERSION="10.0.0" ../opencl-clang
+cmake -DPREFERRED_LLVM_VERSION="16.0.0" ../opencl-clang
 ```
 
 ##### Custom LLVM installation