I made a pull request to Homebrew, I'm waiting to see if they would merge it. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/8301 In the mean time, anyone wanting a working kawa from homebrew should use my patched version of the formula: https://github.com/duncanmak/homebrew-core/commit/7c69640c6422f669af0b1d6e6e898f9c0067a6a7 Enjoy! -- Duncan.