Texlive issues

[Alexander Asteroth]

Dear all,

now that I've figured out what was missing for xounalpp to run properly
I wanted t recompile some LaTeX-slides. I installed the texlive package
and also here I encoutered an error.

The minimal example to reproduce it ist (on my system)

file: test.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> sdfa
> \end{document}

trying to compile that:
> ~/tmp$ pdflatex test.tex 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded 
> format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.

> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> /gnu/store/fjjmki8c6cdzlfcrkxkl0y00zlmrsf67-texlive-bin-20190410/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl:
>  Unexpected non-option argument(s): pdflatex.fmt
> Try "fmtutil --help" for more information.
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!

If I run pdflatex in guix shell --pure texlive the error does not appear
> ~/tmp$ guix shell --pure texlive -- pdflatex test
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded 
> format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

> (/gnu/store/1m3k4k9p6ajhn8z01q4k8fljbzgi64z1-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf
> -dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class

> (/gnu/store/1m3k4k9p6ajhn8z01q4k8fljbzgi64z1-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf
> -dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./test.aux) 
> [1{/gnu/store/1m3k4k9p6ajhn8z01q
> 4k8fljbzgi64z1-texlive-texmf-20190410/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/
> pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) 
> )</gnu/store/1m3k4k9p6ajhn8z01q4k8fljbzgi64z1-texlive
> -texmf-20190410/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10936 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.

Since I haven't set any environment Variables for TeX and the test.tex
file is so simple I have really no clue what could be the cause (other
than some misconfiguration but then the previous call should not have
been successful either).

Cheers,

        Alex