diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos.yml b/.github/workflows/macos.yml
index 495ce05e..d2f5c246 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/macos.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/macos.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ jobs:
           brew install bison libxml2 meson ninja xkeyboardconfig xorg-server
           brew link bison --force
           brew link libxml2 --force
+          # brew install autoconf automake libtool
+          brew reinstall --build-from-source --verbose --formula ./xkbcomp.rb
           # https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python#pep-668-python312-and-virtual-environments
           python3 -m venv venv
           source venv/bin/activate
@@ -33,6 +35,10 @@ jobs:
         env:
           HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
           HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP: 1
+      - name: Debug
+        if: '!cancelled()'
+        run: |
+          cat /Users/runner/Library/Logs/Homebrew/xkbcomp/*
       - name: Setup
         run: |
           PATH="/usr/local/opt/bison/bin:${PATH}" \
diff --git a/xkbcomp.rb b/xkbcomp.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3448e73b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xkbcomp.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+class Xkbcomp < Formula
+  desc "XKB keyboard description compiler"
+  homepage "https://www.x.org"
+  url "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wismill/xkbcomp/-/archive/actions-out-of-bounds/xkbcomp-actions-out-of-bounds.zip"
+  sha256 "23a385b73ae3a69c02f1df3d3b52254e098a535033b28fd80eccccc2c9f1e999"
+  version "1.4.7"
+  license all_of: ["HPND", "MIT-open-group"]
+
+  bottle do
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 arm64_sequoia:  "a0b770e6a7ef934ac5b4fc86d683013e9ec4b1813852884b27362129357ffc57"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 arm64_sonoma:   "21f807d7ff040f4f919aa8b785e84589013a24e492618fb2f68867a20b83ff85"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 arm64_ventura:  "fac529997c4a64e907d0bbfa31c5d7b4223bcb978f139de89a5a57d904280279"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 arm64_monterey: "8005d7a24f88589b10d4b305668a0daf00c3262096cf2824b33b9ee2b820cb57"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 sonoma:         "748bc8b2b4367a4a2a429939d866cad1d3f2c39827d817dcc8005677decfdec4"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 ventura:        "64d4dd5de94b681390d9488addba6c89d1d2cfdc64fc84d3daa7c308868bf3d7"
+    sha256 cellar: :any,                 monterey:       "4bf88bfe3df2a85e6a4e16cb61b92f7a1e91b4e7b1f526014912fc789de34205"
+    sha256 cellar: :any_skip_relocation, x86_64_linux:   "6be95ca9ca5cb1c2afaa4e0d2cf31d75f5daa5e543a824c3c9cb9f6d895c25e2"
+  end
+
+  depends_on "pkgconf" => :build
+
+  depends_on "libx11"
+  depends_on "libxkbfile"
+  depends_on "autoconf" => :build
+  depends_on "automake" => :build
+  depends_on "libtool" => :build
+  depends_on "gcc"
+
+  def install
+    system "autoreconf", "--force", "--install", "--verbose", "--verbose"
+    system "./configure", "--with-xkb-config-root=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/share/X11/xkb", *std_configure_args
+    system "make"
+    system "make", "install"
+    # avoid cellar in bindir
+    inreplace lib/"pkgconfig/xkbcomp.pc", prefix, opt_prefix
+  end
+
+  test do
+    (testpath/"test.xkb").write <<~EOS
+      xkb_keymap {
+        xkb_keycodes "empty+aliases(qwerty)" {
+          minimum = 8;
+          maximum = 255;
+          virtual indicator 1 = "Caps Lock";
+        };
+        xkb_types "complete" {};
+        xkb_symbols "unknown" {};
+        xkb_compatibility "complete" {};
+      };
+    EOS
+
+    system bin/"xkbcomp", "./test.xkb"
+    assert_predicate testpath/"test.xkm", :exist?
+  end
+end