There is a new pull request by gspe against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/gspe/void-packages hexchat https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27702 hexchat: change depends from enchant to enchant2 Tried on my machine, after completely removed enchant it works well with enchant-2 A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27702.patch is attached