There is an updated pull request by abenson against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/abenson/void-packages fix_john_simd
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/22467

[RFC] john: make simd a build option, off by default
This solves the problem of SIMD features being enabled and leaking in on all
architectures, not just ppc*. It is now provided as a build option if there
if is a want/need to enable these for custom builds.

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/22467.patch is attached