How do I run binutils' testsuite with the system installed binaries of binutils/as/ld?

[Doug Evans]

Christian Jönsson writes:
 > Just as a little test... how do I runt binutils' testsuite with system
 > installed binaries, such as /usr/bin/as and /usr/bin/ld?
 > 
 > And how about all binutils' binaries such as readelf, objdump?

The only way that occurs to me is to hack in a solution
with symlinks.  Configure the tree, then install symlinks
to the installed versions for each of the binaries.