FWIW, sendmail 8.9.2 builds and runs fine out of the box under 1.3I (1.3I
built as of two days ago on my i386 box, I should say...)

It looks like 8.9.2 has some nice fixes...

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Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.ddns.org/mason/
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;