diff --git a/recipe/build_base.sh b/recipe/build_base.sh
index 52fa8c3e..b2666146 100644
--- a/recipe/build_base.sh
+++ b/recipe/build_base.sh
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ test "${PY_VER}" = "${VER}"
 unset _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME
 unset _CONDA_PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME
 
-# Prevent lib/python${VER}/_sysconfigdata_*.py from ending up with full paths to these things
+# Prevent lib/python${VERABI}/_sysconfigdata_*.py from ending up with full paths to these things
 # in _build_env because _build_env will not get found during prefix replacement, only _h_env_placeh ...
 AR=$(basename "${AR}")
 
@@ -385,15 +385,15 @@ fi
 SYSCONFIG=$(find ${_buildd_static}/$(cat ${_buildd_static}/pybuilddir.txt) -name "_sysconfigdata*.py" -print0)
 cat ${SYSCONFIG} | ${SYS_PYTHON} "${RECIPE_DIR}"/replace-word-pairs.py \
   "${_FLAGS_REPLACE[@]}"  \
-    > ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
-MAKEFILE=$(find ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/ -path "*config-*/Makefile" -print0)
+    > ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
+MAKEFILE=$(find ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/ -path "*config-*/Makefile" -print0)
 cp ${MAKEFILE} /tmp/Makefile-$$
 cat /tmp/Makefile-$$ | ${SYS_PYTHON} "${RECIPE_DIR}"/replace-word-pairs.py \
   "${_FLAGS_REPLACE[@]}"  \
     > ${MAKEFILE}
 # Check to see that our differences took.
-# echo diff -urN ${SYSCONFIG} ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
-# diff -urN ${SYSCONFIG} ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
+# echo diff -urN ${SYSCONFIG} ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
+# diff -urN ${SYSCONFIG} ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/$(basename ${SYSCONFIG})
 
 # Python installs python${VER}m and python${VER}, one as a hardlink to the other. conda-build breaks these
 # by copying. Since the executable may be static it may be very large so change one to be a symlink
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ ln -s ${PREFIX}/bin/python3.13 ${PREFIX}/bin/python3.1
 # Remove test data to save space
 # Though keep `support` as some things use that.
 # TODO :: Make a subpackage for this once we implement multi-level testing.
-pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}
+pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}
   mkdir test_keep
   mv test/__init__.py test/support test/test_support* test/test_script_helper* test_keep/
   rm -rf test */test
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ pushd ${PREFIX}
     chmod +w lib/libpython${VERABI}.a
     ${STRIP} -S lib/libpython${VERABI}.a
   fi
-  CONFIG_LIBPYTHON=$(find lib/python${VER}/config-${VERABI}* -name "libpython${VERABI}.a")
+  CONFIG_LIBPYTHON=$(find lib/python${VERABI}/config-${VERABI}* -name "libpython${VERABI}.a")
   if [[ -f lib/libpython${VERABI}.a ]] && [[ -f ${CONFIG_LIBPYTHON} ]]; then
     chmod +w ${CONFIG_LIBPYTHON}
     rm ${CONFIG_LIBPYTHON}
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ esac
 # Copy sysconfig that gets recorded to a non-default name
 # using the new compilers with python will require setting _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME
 # to the name of this file (minus the .py extension)
-pushd "${PREFIX}"/lib/python${VER}
+pushd "${PREFIX}"/lib/python${VERABI}
   # On Python 3.5 _sysconfigdata.py was getting copied in here and compiled for some reason.
   # This breaks our attempt to find the right one as recorded_name.
   find lib-dynload -name "_sysconfigdata*.py*" -exec rm {} \;
@@ -524,4 +524,4 @@ fi
 
 # Workaround for old conda versions which fail to install noarch packages for Python 3.10+
 # https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10969
-ln -s "${PREFIX}/lib/python3.13" "${PREFIX}/lib/python3.1"
+ln -s "${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}" "${PREFIX}/lib/python3.1"
diff --git a/recipe/build_static.sh b/recipe/build_static.sh
index 884cd2f3..9b5f3908 100644
--- a/recipe/build_static.sh
+++ b/recipe/build_static.sh
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ esac
 
 cp -pf ${_buildd_static}/libpython${VERABI}.a ${PREFIX}/lib/libpython${VERABI}.a
 if [[ ${HOST} =~ .*linux.* ]]; then
-  pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/config-${VERABI}-${OLD_HOST}
+  pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/config-${VERABI}-${OLD_HOST}
 elif [[ ${HOST} =~ .*darwin.* ]]; then
-  pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VER}/config-${VERABI}-darwin
+  pushd ${PREFIX}/lib/python${VERABI}/config-${VERABI}-darwin
 fi
 ln -s ../../libpython${VERABI}.a libpython${VERABI}.a
 popd
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index aa4bcc8c..bba06e79 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ outputs:
         - pushd prefix-replacement    # [unix]
         - test -f ${PREFIX}/lib/libpython${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}.a  # [unix]
         - test -f ${PREFIX}/lib/libpython${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}.nolto.a  # [unix]
-        - test -f ${PREFIX}/lib/python${PKG_VERSION%.*}/config-${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}-darwin/libpython${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}.a  # [osx]
+        - test -f ${PREFIX}/lib/python${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}/config-${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}-darwin/libpython${PKG_VERSION%.*}{{ gil_abi }}.a  # [osx]
         - bash build-and-test.sh      # [unix]
         - popd    # [unix]
         - popd    # [unix]