> extra 5MB or so are for. (Sort of like when I recently discovered
> that GNU Fileutils 4.0 "ls" is 305kB large on Solaris, while
> the amiga port of the exact same version is 71kB. :-) )
 
 Bull. Maybe someone compiled a static version for anon ftp?

$ ll $GNU/bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x   1 local    users       61872 Aug 11 14:17 /usr/local/gnu/bin/ls
$ $GNU/bin/ls --version
ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0
$ uname -a
SunOS localhost 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc