diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 05c8c44c..9c72eb85 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ if (WITH_COVERAGE)
         NAME "coverage"
         EXECUTABLE make test
         DEPENDENCIES ssh tests)
-    set(GCOVR_ADDITIONAL_ARGS --xml-pretty --exclude-unreachable-branches --print-summary)
+    set(GCOVR_ADDITIONAL_ARGS --xml-pretty --exclude-unreachable-branches --print-summary --gcov-ignore-parse-errors)
     setup_target_for_coverage_gcovr_xml(
         NAME "coverage_xml"
         EXECUTABLE make test