diff --git a/recipes/kmercamel/build.sh b/recipes/kmercamel/build.sh
index 47971cd647aa0..c307c32663a4b 100644
--- a/recipes/kmercamel/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/kmercamel/build.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-make CXX="${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}"
+set -xe
+
+make -j ${CPU_COUNT} CXX="${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}"
 install -d "${PREFIX}/bin"
 install kmercamel "${PREFIX}/bin/"
diff --git a/recipes/kmercamel/meta.yaml b/recipes/kmercamel/meta.yaml
index 6917d5f0c952e..051d2eae13cd8 100644
--- a/recipes/kmercamel/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/kmercamel/meta.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ source:
   sha256: {{ sha256 }}
 
 build:
-  number: 0
+  number: 1
   run_exports:
     - {{ pin_subpackage('kmercamel', max_pin="x") }}
 
@@ -36,3 +36,7 @@ about:
   license_file: LICENSE.txt
   summary: KmerCamel🐫 - compressing k-mer sets using masked superstrings
 
+extra:
+  additional-platforms:
+    - linux-aarch64
+    - osx-arm64