diff --git a/build-fail-blacklist b/build-fail-blacklist
index c669f377a6459..e3b1034c69b4f 100644
--- a/build-fail-blacklist
+++ b/build-fail-blacklist
@@ -607,7 +607,6 @@ recipes/fastuniq
 recipes/fgap
 recipes/funcannot
 recipes/genepender
-recipes/ghostx
 recipes/ls-gkm
 recipes/mosaik
 recipes/ngmerge
diff --git a/recipes/ghostx/build.sh b/recipes/ghostx/build.sh
index 2c7bc97bdc3af..9027e882edf0c 100644
--- a/recipes/ghostx/build.sh
+++ b/recipes/ghostx/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -xe
+
 cd ./src/
 
-make
-mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
+CC="${CC}" CXX="${CXX}" CC_FLAGS="${CFLAGS}" make -j"${CPU_COUNT}"
 
-cp ghostx $PREFIX/bin
+mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin
+install -m 755 ghostx $PREFIX/bin
diff --git a/recipes/ghostx/ghostx-makefile.patch b/recipes/ghostx/ghostx-makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..459c6f410a457
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/ghostx/ghostx-makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+diff --git i/src/Makefile w/src/Makefile
+index 8844e0a..3248657 100644
+--- i/src/Makefile
++++ w/src/Makefile
+@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+ LAST_CC=g++
+-CC=gcc
+-CXX=g++
++CC?=gcc
++CXX?=g++
+ COMMON_FLAGS=-Wall -Wextra -pedantic -fopenmp -O3
+ INCLUDES = -I ../ext/boost
+-CC_FLAGS=${COMMON_FLAGS} 
++CC_FLAGS?=${COMMON_FLAGS}
+ LDLIBS	=-lm -fopenmp
+ 
+ ifeq ($(PROFILE), Yes)
+@@ -69,18 +69,18 @@ OBJS += $(CPP_SRC:%.cpp=%.o)
+ all:ghostx
+ 
+ ghostx: $(OBJS)
+-	$(LAST_CC) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDLIBS)
++	$(CXX) -std=c++14 -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDLIBS)
+ 
+ .c.o:
+ 	$(CC) -c $(CC_FLAGS) $< -o $@  $(INCLUDES)
+ 
+ .cpp.o:
+-	$(CXX) -c $(CC_FLAGS) $< -o $@  $(INCLUDES)
++	$(CXX) -std=c++14 -c $(CC_FLAGS) $< -o $@  $(INCLUDES)
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ .PHONY: clean
+ clean:
+-	rm ghostx
+ 	rm -f *.o
+ 	rm -f *~
++	rm ghostx
diff --git a/recipes/ghostx/meta.yaml b/recipes/ghostx/meta.yaml
index 960a749842cc3..076edf882c2ec 100644
--- a/recipes/ghostx/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/ghostx/meta.yaml
@@ -8,16 +8,22 @@ package:
 source:
   url: http://www.bi.cs.titech.ac.jp/{{ name }}/releases/{{ name }}-{{ version }}.tar.gz
   sha256: c2bd846e2d7c648931601578501db3aea89c4c5af8fa5f3fa79680c8fe0755bf
+  patches:
+    - ghostx-makefile.patch
 
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 2
+  run_exports:
+    - {{ pin_subpackage(name, max_pin='x') }}
 
 requirements:
   build:
     - make
     - {{ compiler('c') }}
     - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
-  run:
+  host:
+    - libgomp # [linux]
+    - llvm-openmp # [osx]
 
 test:
   commands:
@@ -30,6 +36,9 @@ about:
   summary: "GHOSTX is a homology search tool which can detect remote homologues like BLAST and is about 100 times more efficient than BLAST by using suffix arrays. GHOSTX outputs search results in the format similar to BLAST-tabular format."
 
 extra:
+  additional-platforms:
+    - linux-aarch64
+    - osx-arm64
   recipe-maintainers:
     - tomkinsc
   identifiers: