Inkscape command-line is broken on Mac OS X

[Ecco]

Here's the software used :
 - Snow Leopard 10.6.1
 - Inkscape-0.47pre2-3.LEOPARD+.dmg, as released on SourceForge.net

Inkscape runs fine out of the box. However, running it from the command-line doesn't parse any input parameters. Inkscape starts fine and all, but argv is completly ignored. Example from my terminal :

-----------
[12:45 romain@Jack:~ 4149] % /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape --help
Warning: AppleCollationOrder setting not found, using AppleLocale.
Setting Language: fr_FR.UTF-8
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-7A28mk/:0".

(inkscape-bin:49433): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'object-visible'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
You can get a copy from:
 http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
----------

And that's it. At that point Inkscape is running just fine on my desktop. However, the command-line parameters are just ignored. I tried with various possibilities (--help, a_file.svg, etc…). Always got the same behavior : Inkscape starts as if I hadn't specified any parameter

[Ecco (r-goyet)]

Actually I tested it with Inkscape 0.46 on Leopard (10.5.8), and there's exactly the same bug…

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Try these:

  /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --help --without-gui
  /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --verb-list --without-gui

[Ecco (r-goyet)]

Oh, ok, this seems to work.
It's pretty unfriendly though, because it looks like any file *must* be pointed to by its *full* path…
Nevertheless, thanks for the workaround !

[su_v (suv-lp)]

If you depend on an command line version identical to linux you could install Inkscape from MacPorts or Fink. But then you don't get the relocatable application bundle.

related: bug #181639 “Command-line invocation on Mac OSX partially broken”