diff --git a/recipes/cloudspades/build.sh b/recipes/cloudspades/build.sh
index 2de2a1721d8fa..db97bf699cf4f 100644
--- a/recipes/cloudspades/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/cloudspades/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 set -e -o pipefail -x
 
-export LIBRARY_PATH="${PREFIX}/lib"
-export INCLUDE_PATH="${PREFIX}/include"
-export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O3 -fcommon"
-export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O3 -fcommon -I${PREFIX}/include -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_AVAILABILITY -fsigned-char"
+#export LIBRARY_PATH="${PREFIX}/lib"
+#export INCLUDE_PATH="${PREFIX}/include"
+#export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O3 -fcommon"
+#export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O3 -fcommon -I${PREFIX}/include -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_AVAILABILITY"
 
 case $(uname) in
 	Linux)
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ case $(uname) in
 		;;
 esac
 
+mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/bin ${PREFIX}/share
 cd assembler
-PREFIX="${PREFIX}" bash spades_compile.sh "${THREADS}" -DSPADES_ENABLE_PROJECTS="all"
+./spades_compile.sh "${THREADS}"
diff --git a/recipes/cloudspades/meta.yaml b/recipes/cloudspades/meta.yaml
index 8385d16be8a21..86a36f47254c5 100644
--- a/recipes/cloudspades/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/cloudspades/meta.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ source:
   sha256: {{ sha256 }}
 
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 2
   skip: True  # [osx]
   run_exports:
     - {{ pin_subpackage('cloudspades', max_pin="x") }}
@@ -50,7 +50,5 @@ about:
   doc_url: "https://github.com/ablab/spades/tree/cloudspades-ismb"
 
 extra:
-  additional-platforms:
-    - linux-aarch64
   recipe-maintainers:
     - pdimens