diff --git a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/build.sh b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index f9fa6721e47..00000000000
--- a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# remove the emcc symlink in the $BUILD_PREFIX/bin
-rm $BUILD_PREFIX/bin/emcc
-
-# make callable
-chmod +x $RECIPE_DIR/emcc_wrapper.sh
-
-# create symlink to $RECIPE_DIR/emcc_wrapper.sh 
-ln -s $RECIPE_DIR/emcc_wrapper.sh $BUILD_PREFIX/bin/emcc
-
-${PYTHON} -m pip install .
diff --git a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/emcc_wrapper.sh b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/emcc_wrapper.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7d1f67a557b..00000000000
--- a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/emcc_wrapper.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-$BUILD_PREFIX/bin/python3 $RECIPE_DIR/py_emcc_wrapper.py $BUILD_PREFIX/opt/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/emcc  "$@"
-exit $?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/patches/0001-Fix-unknown-arg-R-PREFIX-lib.patch b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/patches/0001-Fix-unknown-arg-R-PREFIX-lib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b48f13a5015
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/patches/0001-Fix-unknown-arg-R-PREFIX-lib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 13dd0b7fa704ed39dcc8c85ee3f7e86b3f1d72ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Isabel Paredes <isabel.paredes@quantstack.net>
+Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:41:03 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix unknown arg -R$PREFIX/lib
+
+wasm-ld: error: unknown argument: -R$PREFIX/lib
+
+---
+ setup.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 8c02423..6d9ba67 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ else:
+ if sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform == 'cygwin':
+     runtime_lib_dirs = []
+ else:
+-    runtime_lib_dirs = lib_dirs
++    runtime_lib_dirs = []
+ 
+ # Do not require numpy for just querying the package
+ # Taken from the h5py setup file.
diff --git a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/py_emcc_wrapper.py b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/py_emcc_wrapper.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a84520fd1c..00000000000
--- a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/py_emcc_wrapper.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-import subprocess
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-
-    args = sys.argv[2:]
-
-    filtered_args = []
-    for arg in args:
-        if ("-Wl,-R$PREFIX/lib" in arg )or ("-R" in arg):
-            print("removed arg:", arg)
-        else:
-            filtered_args.append(arg)
-    
-    # run the actual command in argv[1]
-    subprocess.run([sys.argv[1]] + filtered_args, check=True)
-
-
-
diff --git a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/recipe.yaml b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/recipe.yaml
index 4be72a531a8..54d891c22e6 100644
--- a/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/recipe.yaml
+++ b/recipes/recipes_emscripten/netcdf4/recipe.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 context:
-  version: "1.7.2"
-  name: "netcdf4"
+  version: 1.7.4
+  name: netcdf4
 
 package:
   name: ${{ name }}
@@ -8,9 +8,15 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/archive/refs/tags/v${{ version }}rel.tar.gz
-  sha256: cce7d42a83f84b6ce6288bb2fb171d5ffd294f1a1ba2650807d238ae961e9629
+  sha256: c792977eb762fd29fa46b78f44dd8c15729fe7733c2cd2ecd34552089734ce4b
+  patches:
+  - patches/0001-Fix-unknown-arg-R-PREFIX-lib.patch
+
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 0
+  script:
+  - export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib -lhdf5 $LDFLAGS"
+  - ${PYTHON} -m pip install . -vvv
 
 requirements:
   build: