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@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ chmod +x ./configure
 sudo make install
 ```
 
+If you're on OSX and use homebrew, you can instead install Thrift 0.9.x with `brew` and ensure that it comes first in your `PATH`.
+
+```
+brew install thrift@0.9
+export PATH="/usr/local/opt/thrift@0.9/bin:$PATH"
+```
+
 ### Build Parquet with Maven
 
 Once protobuf and thrift are available in your path, you can build the project by running: