There is a new pull request by gspe against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/gspe/void-packages lyx https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27713 lyx: update to 2.3.6.1 and replace old enchant It compile fine. I don't use lyx so I haven't tested the spell check but should works fine. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27713.patch is attached