diff --git a/recipes/julia/build.sh b/recipes/julia/build.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+export C_INCLUDE_PATH=${PREFIX}/include
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PREFIX}/lib
+export LIBRARY_PATH=${PREFIX}/lib
+export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${PREFIX}
+
+make -j 4 prefix=${PREFIX} MARCH=core2 sysconfigdir=${PREFIX}/etc NO_GIT=1 \
+ USE_SYSTEM_LIBGIT2=1 USE_LLVM_SHLIB=0 USE_SYSTEM_CURL=1 USE_SYSTEM_MPFR=1 \
+ USE_SYSTEM_PATCHELF=1 USE_SYSTEM_LIBSSH2=1 USE_SYSTEM_LLVM=0 USE_SYSTEM_BLAS=1 \
+ USE_SYSTEM_FFTW=1 USE_SYSTEM_GMP=1 USE_SYSTEM_LAPACK=1 USE_SYSTEM_ARPACK=1 USE_SYSTEM_SUITESPARSE=1 \
+ LIBBLAS=-lopenblas LIBBLASNAME=libopenblas.so LIBLAPACK=-lopenblas LIBLAPACKNAME=libopenblas.so \
+ TAGGED_RELEASE_BANNER="conda-forge-julia release" \
+ install
+
+mv "$PREFIX/bin/julia" "$PREFIX/bin/julia_"
+cp "$RECIPE_DIR/julia-wrapper.sh" "$PREFIX/bin/julia"
+chmod +x "$PREFIX/bin/julia"
+
diff --git a/recipes/julia/julia-wrapper.sh b/recipes/julia/julia-wrapper.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+JULIA_HOME="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
+
+# Set JULIA_PKGDIR to $PREFIX/share/julia/site to avoid contaminating
+# user's ~/.julia/.  This script will modify Pkg.dir() and
+# Base.LOAD_CACHE_PATH[1] appropriately.  Note that wrapper script is
+# used rather than /etc/julia/juliarc.jl because LOAD_CACHE_PATH is
+# configured in base/sysimg.jl which is loaded before juliarc.jl.
+if [ -z ${JULIA_PKGDIR+x} ] # see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13864829
+then
+    JULIA_PKGDIR="$(dirname "$JULIA_HOME")/share/julia/site"
+    export JULIA_PKGDIR
+fi
+
+# Set JULIA_HISTORY to $PREFIX/.julia_history to avoid saving
+# to user's $HOME
+if [ -z ${JULIA_HISTORY+x} ]
+then
+    JULIA_HISTORY="$(dirname "$JULIA_HOME")/.julia_history"
+    export JULIA_HISTORY
+fi
+
+exec "$JULIA_HOME/julia_" "$@"
diff --git a/recipes/julia/meta.yaml b/recipes/julia/meta.yaml
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+{% set name = "julia" %}
+{% set version = "0.5.2" %}
+{% set sha256 = "efa3303d63e39bf3ea06e23ef68807cca0095c7e0507bdf26eae1d5dee7868c7" %}
+{% set variant = "openblas" %}
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  fn: v{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  url: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/archive/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  sha256: {{ sha256 }}
+
+build:
+  skip: True  # [osx or win]
+  number: 0
+  features:
+    - blas_{{ variant }}
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - gcc  # [linux]
+    - toolchain
+    - patchelf
+    - cmake
+    - zlib 1.2.8
+    - python 2.7.*
+    - perl 5.20.*
+    - openblas 0.2.19|0.2.19.*
+    - blas 1.1 {{ variant }}
+    - fftw
+    - gmp 6.1.*
+    - mpfr 3.1.*
+    - curl
+    - libgit2
+    - arpack
+    - suitesparse
+    
+  run:
+    - zlib 1.2.8
+    - libgcc  # [linux]
+    - libgit2
+    - fftw
+    - gmp 6.1.*
+    - mpfr 3.1.*
+    - openblas 0.2.19|0.2.19.*
+    - blas 1.1 {{ variant }}
+    - arpack
+    - suitesparse
+    - curl
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - julia -e 'Base.runtests("all"); Base.runtests("pkg libgit2-online")'
+  requires:
+    - perl
+
+about:
+  home: http://julialang.org/
+  license: MIT
+  license_file: LICENSE.md
+  summary: A high-performance dynamic programming language for data science
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - bgruening
+    - dfornika
+    - acaprez