Comment 3 for bug 251982

> Inkscape on Mac OS X, when compiled against GTK/Quartz
> (no X requirement), should run the GUI by default.
It does not run the GUI for you? The experimental gtk-quartz build of Inkscape 0.47pre0 for OS X Leopard I have tested did use the GUI by default. The reports about a recent Inkscape 0.47 gtk-quartz build on OS X Tiger (both as command line version and bundled as osxapp) never indicated that 'inkscape' or 'inkscape-bin' (in the bundle) needs to be launched with the option '--with-gui'.

> That is, --with-gui should not be required.
AFAIK it is not required.

It is possible that I completely misunderstood your initial report - could you provide more information about how you configure, build and bundle Inkscape 0.47 +quartz? Do you need '--with-gui' when launching inkscape from the command line or as argument in the launcher script inside the application bundle?
Or is the issue that $DISPLAY is unset on your system (no X11/Xquartz installed) and you see similar issues as reported in bug #167857 “assertion hit when running inkscape without DISPLAY set” (<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167857>) despite building it without x11 dependencies?