@@ -355,11 +355,13 @@ def get_temp_dir(tmp_dir: StrPath | None = None) -> StrPath:
             if not support.is_wasi:
                 tmp_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('abs_builddir')
                 if tmp_dir is None:
-                    # gh-74470: On Windows, only srcdir is available. Using
-                    # abs_builddir mostly matters on UNIX when building Python
-                    # out of the source tree, especially when the source tree
-                    # is read only.
-                    tmp_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
+                    tmp_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('abs_srcdir')
+                    if not tmp_dir:
+                        # gh-74470: On Windows, only srcdir is available. Using
+                        # abs_builddir mostly matters on UNIX when building
+                        # Python out of the source tree, especially when the
+                        # source tree is read only.
+                        tmp_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
                 tmp_dir = os.path.join(tmp_dir, 'build')
             else:
                 # WASI platform
 
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ def collect_sysconfig(info_add):
         'SHELL',
         'SOABI',
         'abs_builddir',
+        'abs_srcdir',
         'prefix',
         'srcdir',
     ):
 
@@ -802,8 +802,13 @@ def test_set_memlimit(self):
             support.real_max_memuse = old_real_max_memuse
 
     def test_copy_python_src_ignore(self):
-        src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
+        src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('abs_srcdir')
+        if not src_dir:
+            src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
         src_dir = os.path.abspath(src_dir)
+        if not os.path.exists(src_dir):
+            self.skipTest(f"cannot access Python source code directory:"
+                          f" {src_dir!r}")
 
         ignored = {'.git', '__pycache__'}
 
 
@@ -7,9 +7,16 @@
 from test import support
 
 
+def get_python_source_dir():
+    src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('abs_srcdir')
+    if not src_dir:
+        src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
+    return os.path.abspath(src_dir)
+
+
 TESTS_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 TOOL_ROOT = os.path.dirname(TESTS_DIR)
-SRCDIR = os.path.abspath(sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir'))
+SRCDIR = get_python_source_dir()
 
 MAKE = shutil.which('make')
 FREEZE = os.path.join(TOOL_ROOT, 'freeze.py')
 
@@ -11,14 +11,21 @@
 import untabify
 
 
+def get_python_source_dir():
+    src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('abs_srcdir')
+    if not src_dir:
+        src_dir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
+    return os.path.abspath(src_dir)
+
+
 # Excluded directories which are copies of external libraries:
 # don't check their coding style
 EXCLUDE_DIRS = [
     os.path.join('Modules', '_decimal', 'libmpdec'),
     os.path.join('Modules', 'expat'),
     os.path.join('Modules', 'zlib'),
     ]
-SRCDIR = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
+SRCDIR = get_python_source_dir()
 
 
 def n_files_str(count):