diff --git a/.circleci/setup.sh b/.circleci/setup.sh
index d2e9d3435d0b9..8bce7621929c1 100755
--- a/.circleci/setup.sh
+++ b/.circleci/setup.sh
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ if ! type bioconda-utils > /dev/null || [[ $BOOTSTRAP == "true" ]]; then
     # step 3: install bioconda-utils
     $WORKSPACE/miniconda/bin/conda install -y git pip --file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bioconda/bioconda-utils/$BIOCONDA_UTILS_TAG/bioconda_utils/bioconda_utils-requirements.txt
     $WORKSPACE/miniconda/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-utils.git@$BIOCONDA_UTILS_TAG
+    $WORKSPACE/miniconda/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/nsoranzo/conda-build.git@fix_shebang
 
     # step 4: configure local channel
     $WORKSPACE/miniconda/bin/conda index $WORKSPACE/miniconda/conda-bld/linux-64 $WORKSPACE/miniconda/conda-bld/osx-64 $WORKSPACE/miniconda/conda-bld/noarch
diff --git a/recipes/perl-xml-entities/build.sh b/recipes/perl-xml-entities/build.sh
index d0dd58b2462ff..afa46daf868e3 100644
--- a/recipes/perl-xml-entities/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/perl-xml-entities/build.sh
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ else
     exit 1
 fi
 
-chmod u+w "$PREFIX/bin/download-entities.pl"
-
+# chmod u+w "$PREFIX/bin/download-entities.pl"
diff --git a/recipes/perl-xml-entities/meta.yaml b/recipes/perl-xml-entities/meta.yaml
index 5cfaf01627a8c..f8ff82d7411e9 100644
--- a/recipes/perl-xml-entities/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/perl-xml-entities/meta.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ source:
   sha256: {{ sha256 }}
 
 build:
-  number: 0
+  number: 1
 
 requirements:
   build: