diff --git a/changes/quiet-builds.md b/changes/quiet-builds.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc723fbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/quiet-builds.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+bump: patch
+type: build
+`x` no longer prints a clang warning on every build. Each `clang` invocation the
+task runner makes now passes `-Wno-override-module`, the same flag `ludicc`
+already passes for its own link step: the emitted IR names no target triple, so
+clang substitutes the host's and says so — four times per `x build`, with
+nothing to act on. (The comment in `selfhost/main.ludic` claimed the opposite,
+that the IR *does* carry a triple; it does not.)
diff --git a/selfhost/main.ludic b/selfhost/main.ludic
index ea080d1e..b3911911 100644
--- a/selfhost/main.ludic
+++ b/selfhost/main.ludic
@@ -157,8 +157,9 @@ entry {
 
   # clang twice: assemble the IR, then link. A windowed build adds the macOS
   # platform layer and the Cocoa framework.
-  # -Wno-override-module: our IR carries an explicit target triple, which clang
-  # would otherwise warn about on every build.
+  # -Wno-override-module: the emitted IR carries no target triple, so clang
+  # substitutes the host's and warns about it on every single build. There is
+  # nothing to act on — the host default is exactly what we want — so it is off.
   var cmd = `{cc} -O2 -Wno-override-module {ll}`
   if g_windowed {
     let cocoa = join_path(home, "runtime/native/cocoa.ll")
diff --git a/tools/x/selfhost.ludic b/tools/x/selfhost.ludic
index 85d1c69e..a6dfc012 100644
--- a/tools/x/selfhost.ludic
+++ b/tools/x/selfhost.ludic
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
 # now lives here once, in selfhost_frags().
 
 # the C toolchain driver (clang) that assembles and links the emitted IR
-function cc() -> pointer { return getenv_or("LUDIC_CC", "clang") }
+# The C toolchain used to assemble and link IR. -Wno-override-module for the
+# same reason the compiler itself passes it (see selfhost/main.ludic): the IR
+# names no target triple, so clang substitutes the host's and warns every time.
+function cc() -> pointer { return getenv_or("LUDIC_CC", "clang") + " -Wno-override-module" }
 
 # the self-host compiler's source fragments, in link order. This is THE list;
 # the old scripts each carried their own copy.