symfony 1.4命令行不接受参数

I inherited a symfony 1.4 project recently and I am trying to make some changes. I added 4 new tables and wanted to use the commandline tool to add the appropriate models. Everytime I run the commandline I just get the usage output.

example commandline: $php lib/vendor/symfony/data/bin/symfony -V

example output: Usage: symfony [options] task_name [arguments] ...

I have no idea why it doesn't recognize the -V and give version information.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

I do not think register_argv_argc was set in the php.ini file. When I execute with php-cli the symfony commands seems to work.