The output from my emerge. This output is consistent no matter how many times I attempt the emerge

gnome-mime-data (text/plain), 2.20 KB, created by Michael Sullivan on 2004-12-21 12:18:25 UTC

]2;Started emerge on: Dec 21, 2004 12:11:08]2; *** emerge --update --deep gnome-mime-dataCalculating dependencies  ]2; >>> emerge (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 to /]2;emerge: (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 Clean]2;emerge: (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 Compile>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking gnome-mime-data-2.4.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/work
>>> Source unpacked.
 [32;01m*[0m Applying uClibc/libtool patches ...
QA Notice: USE Flag 'doc' not in IUSE for gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
 [32;01m*[0m econf: updating /var/tmp/portage/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/work/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
 [32;01m*[0m econf: updating /var/tmp/portage/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/work/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i386-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-gtk-doc
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/work/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/work/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

!!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

  ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) gnome-mime-data-2.4.2.tar.bz2
]2; *** terminating.]2;xterm