I've been getting this from the start, and it is only a mild nuisance as I develop in OSX but then deploy on linux.
Anyway, the bitcoind process doesn't daemonize itself on my system, OSX 10.6, not with nor without -daemon. I can background it with '&' or ctrl-z bg, and it works correctly.
Thread #0212
bitcoind as daemon in OSX
Can you build?
Try changing line 78 of init.cpp from:
#ifdef __WXGTK__
to:
#ifndef __WXMSW__
If that works, I'll change the source. It should work.