FreeBSD 7.2 Release with KDE 4.3.5 installed. i386 VM
Followed build instructions for "local install"in home dir. Instructions listed on this site:
http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index ... /compiling
No problems with kdevplatform.
At end (97% complete) of "make" for kdevelop got this error:

make: don't know how to make ../app_templates/cpp/Cmake/cmake_plaincpp/%PROJECTDIRNAME.kdev4. Stop

Any suggestions?

Please try downloading an unstable tarball again in a few hours, or checkout from svn. This is likely a temporary build breakage.

Tried latest version this morning - same errors.
Then tried it again but substituted "make" with "gmake".
With gmake the compile completed.
But when I run kdevelop it looks like a watered down version.
On the menu bar there is only "File", "Settings", "Help".
And the tabs shown are "Review", "Debug" and "Code".
Plus a vertical "Documentation" tab along the right side.
So it looks like something went awry... because it doesn't resemble the screenshots I've seen.
I might have to wait for the FreeBSD port to catch up to version 4. sigh
thanks for responding.

Have you set KDEDIRS, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately so the needed directories are found by KDE infrastructure?

okay - per your suggestion and using instructions from http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?file ... iling.html (self-compiled version 3.5) I created the following statements:
export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde4
export QTDIR=/usr/local/lib/qt4
export KDEVELOPDIR=$HOME/kdevBeta4/kdevelop
export KDEDIRS=$KDEVELOPDIR:$KDEDIR
export KDEVELOPLIBS=$KDEVELOPDIR/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEVELOPLIBS:$QTDIR:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEVELOPLIBS:$QTDIR:$KDEDIR/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=$KDEVELOPDIR/bin:$QTDIR:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH
The dir "kdevBeta4" is where I installed kdevelop and kdevplatform.
I'm sure I messed up my configurations and probably have redundant and/or conflicting libraries all over the place... (still learning) - but at least now there is an IDE that looks promising.
The IDE menu bar is populated with "Session Project Run Navigation" etc.
I don't see a "Create New" option under "Project" menu - but then I found this site:
http://apaku.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/h ... 4-project/
explaining that plugins are needed to enable the new project feature.
So thank you, bcooksley, for your help.
KDevelop ~4 is running on FreeBSD 7.2 Release.
regards,
Skippy

Update for newbies like myself...

After reading the apaku blog I tried this:

export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kdevBeta4/kdevelop:/usr/local
kbuildsycoca4

So the convoluted mess of my previous exports statements was unnecessary at best.
And the "Project-> New from Template" menu item is there and working.