Use rubber to convert a source document into a PDF document:
$ rubber --pdf report
Rubber has a problem with warnings produced by PDFLaTeX, interpreting them as errors, and thus failing. A simple fix is to edit the file __init__.py in /usr/share/rubber/rubber/, in the definition of the errors function, insert the following:
... for line in self.lines: if line[0:23] == "! pdfTeX warning (dest)": print "PDF WARN: " + line[25:], return 0 if line[0] == "!": ...