diff --git a/.scripts/build_steps.sh b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
index a147fa70..5b1144ca 100755
--- a/.scripts/build_steps.sh
+++ b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ source run_conda_forge_build_setup
 # automatically.
 /usr/bin/sudo -n yum install -y libX11 libXau libxcb mesa-libGL
 
+# test https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/5404
+pip install git+https://github.com/isuruf/conda-build.git@a3127e41814b04b643f46e45e17ca29a74b9887c
 
 # make the build number clobber
 make_build_number "${FEEDSTOCK_ROOT}" "${RECIPE_ROOT}" "${CONFIG_FILE}"
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 327ec859..364fb6d6 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ build:
   number: 1
   skip: true  # [py<39]
   # DEBUG
-  skip: true  # [not (osx and arm64)]
+  skip: true  # [not ((osx and arm64) or (linux and ppc64le))]
 
 # to avoid creating redundant CI jobs, conda-smithy needs python
 # to be used in all outputs, including the implicit global one.
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ outputs:
     build:
       ignore_run_exports_from:
         - zlib
-      # work around https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/5403
-      missing_dso_whitelist:    # [ppc64le]
-        - $RPATH/ld64.so.2      # [ppc64le]
       script_env:
         # Workaround an upstream conda-build issue w/pip & `outputs` by setting env vars manually.
         # Drop once conda-build 24.7.0 is released.