phplint: The "-x" option does not exist.

Sorry to litter your repo with a support request. I am aware of older issues with the same issues, but could not resolve.

I get the error The "-x" option does not exist. when running the linter.

I am using gitlab CI with a symfony-based project with a standard symfony file structure. (e.g. project_dir/src/…)

My .gitlab-ci.yml job:

phplint:
  stage: test
  needs: []
  image: overtrue/phplint:latest
  variables:
      INPUT_PATH: "./"
      INPUT_OPTIONS: "-c .phplint.yml"
  script: echo '' #prevents ci yml parse error

my .phplint.yml:

path: ./src
jobs: 10
extensions:
    - php
exclude:
    - vendor
warning: true
memory-limit: -1
no-cache: true

my output in the pipeline

Running with gitlab-runner 16.3.0~beta.108.g2b6048b4 (2b6048b4)
  on green-2.saas-linux-small-amd64.runners-manager.gitlab.com/default ns46NMmJ, system ID: s_85d7af184313
  feature flags: FF_USE_IMPROVED_URL_MASKING:true, FF_RESOLVE_FULL_TLS_CHAIN:false

Resolving secrets
00:00

Preparing the "docker+machine" executor
00:07
Using Docker executor with image overtrue/phplint:latest ...
Pulling docker image overtrue/phplint:latest ...
Using docker image sha256:5f8f6a623cc79c280baa62930eecabb2d6c0a2cda58688b0f945915952e9a64a for overtrue/phplint:latest with digest overtrue/phplint@sha256:191bdfb1d350c38a7d98014bdff83122103f5dcb4ae22552e4d1cb1df9de3d28 ...

Preparing environment
00:01
Running on runner-ns46nmmj-project-15927696-concurrent-0 via runner-ns46nmmj-s-l-s-amd64-1695128617-90cdfe2e...

Getting source from Git repository
00:03
Fetching changes with git depth set to 50...
Initialized empty Git repository in /builds/clerkbase/onboard-app/.git/
Created fresh repository.
Checking out e3d8436f as detached HEAD (ref is refs/merge-requests/1085/head)...
Skipping Git submodules setup
$ git remote set-url origin "${CI_REPOSITORY_URL}"

Restoring cache
00:13
Checking cache for 0_yarn-f6addb288c725b780b517883bd059972ea139036-non_protected...
Downloading cache from https://storage.googleapis.com/gitlab-com-runners-cache/project/15927696/0_yarn-f6addb288c725b780b517883bd059972ea139036-non_protected 
Successfully extracted cache
Checking cache for 1_composer-3c910146abac5175794d5c45560871a531ac11b9-non_protected...
Downloading cache from https://storage.googleapis.com/gitlab-com-runners-cache/project/15927696/1_composer-3c910146abac5175794d5c45560871a531ac11b9-non_protected 
Successfully extracted cache

Executing "step_script" stage of the job script
00:00
Using docker image sha256:5f8f6a623cc79c280baa62930eecabb2d6c0a2cda58688b0f945915952e9a64a for overtrue/phplint:latest with digest overtrue/phplint@sha256:191bdfb1d350c38a7d98014bdff83122103f5dcb4ae22552e4d1cb1df9de3d28 ...
                                   
  The "-x" option does not exist.  
                                   
lint [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--extensions EXTENSIONS] [-j|--jobs JOBS] [-c|--configuration CONFIGURATION] [--no-configuration] [--cache CACHE] [--no-cache] [-p|--progress PROGRESS] [--no-progress] [--log-json [LOG-JSON]] [--log-junit [LOG-JUNIT]] [-w|--warning] [--memory-limit MEMORY-LIMIT] [--ignore-exit-code] [--] [<path>...]

Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

Please advise how to correct. thank you!