How do I tell macports that a step is finished?

[Michael_google gmail_Gersten]

I managed to get a problem port to configure and compile.

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/usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../include  -U_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -DSIGWINCH=28
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include/ncursesw -arch
i386  -dynamic -c ../c++/demo.cc -o ../obj_s/demo.o
/usr/bin/g++  -o demo ../obj_s/demo.o -L../lib -lncurses++w -L../lib
-lformw -lmenuw -lpanelw -lncursesw     -Wl,-search_paths_first
-I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include
-U_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -DSIGWINCH=28
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include/ncursesw -arch
i386  -dynamic
Kleiman-ibook:ncurses-5.7-i386 michael$ cd
# All done! Yea! Now to install it, right?
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ sudo port install ncurses +universal
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for ncurses
--->  Configuring ncursesw
--->  Configuring ncursesw for architecture ppc
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: error copying
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7"
to "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7-ppc/ncurses-5.7":
file already exists
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$

It's already done the dependencies, the fetch, the configuration
(which failed before, and now is manually done, as well as the i386
half of the compile.)

How do I say "Step X is done, go to the next step"?