Just did some more checking, it seems the problem is Kile not finding it's KDE directories. Opening up a shell, setting the correct environment for Kile with:
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local
then staring kile from the commandline with
kile
then kile works without the bug. I checked this with make install from git, and it does indeed need to explicitly be pointed to the correct directory even then.
Just did some more checking, it seems the problem is Kile not finding it's KDE directories. Opening up a shell, setting the correct environment for Kile with:
export KDEDIRS=/usr/local
then staring kile from the commandline with
kile
then kile works without the bug. I checked this with make install from git, and it does indeed need to explicitly be pointed to the correct directory even then.