diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3e5d284aa39..ebceca8737e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ releases
 test_bitcoin.coverage/
 total.coverage/
 coverage_percent.txt
+/cov_tool_wrapper.sh
 
 #build tests
 linux-coverage-build
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 75a164f49e8..2a72c231735 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ OSX_PACKAGING = $(OSX_DEPLOY_SCRIPT) $(OSX_FANCY_PLIST) $(OSX_INSTALLER_ICONS) \
   $(top_srcdir)/contrib/macdeploy/detached-sig-apply.sh \
   $(top_srcdir)/contrib/macdeploy/detached-sig-create.sh
 
-COVERAGE_INFO = baseline.info \
+COVERAGE_INFO = $(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER) baseline.info \
   test_bitcoin_filtered.info total_coverage.info \
   baseline_filtered.info functional_test.info functional_test_filtered.info \
   test_bitcoin_coverage.info test_bitcoin.info fuzz.info fuzz_coverage.info
@@ -192,7 +192,11 @@ LCOV_FILTER_PATTERN = \
 	-p "src/secp256k1" \
 	-p "depends"
 
-baseline.info:
+$(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER):
+	@echo 'exec $(COV_TOOL) "$$@"' > $(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER)
+	@chmod +x $(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER)
+
+baseline.info: $(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER)
 	$(LCOV) -c -i -d $(abs_builddir)/src -o $@
 
 baseline_filtered.info: baseline.info
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2381c5dd084..2acd702600b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ AC_PATH_TOOL(AR, ar)
 AC_PATH_TOOL(RANLIB, ranlib)
 AC_PATH_TOOL(STRIP, strip)
 AC_PATH_TOOL(GCOV, gcov)
+AC_PATH_TOOL(LLVM_COV, llvm-cov)
 AC_PATH_PROG(LCOV, lcov)
 dnl Python 3.5 is specified in .python-version and should be used if available, see doc/dependencies.md
 AC_PATH_PROGS([PYTHON], [python3.5 python3.6 python3.7 python3.8 python3 python])
@@ -680,16 +681,37 @@ if test x$use_lcov = xyes; then
   if test x$LCOV = x; then
     AC_MSG_ERROR("lcov testing requested but lcov not found")
   fi
-  if test x$GCOV = x; then
-    AC_MSG_ERROR("lcov testing requested but gcov not found")
-  fi
   if test x$PYTHON = x; then
     AC_MSG_ERROR("lcov testing requested but python not found")
   fi
   if test x$GENHTML = x; then
     AC_MSG_ERROR("lcov testing requested but genhtml not found")
   fi
-  LCOV="$LCOV --gcov-tool=$GCOV"
+
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether compiler is Clang])
+  AC_PREPROC_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
+      #if defined(__clang__) && defined(__llvm__)
+      // Compiler is Clang
+      #else
+      #  error Compiler is not Clang
+      #endif
+    ]])],[
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+      if test x$LLVM_COV = x; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([lcov testing requested but llvm-cov not found])
+      fi
+      COV_TOOL="$LLVM_COV gcov"
+    ],[
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+      if test x$GCOV = x; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([lcov testing requested but gcov not found])
+      fi
+      COV_TOOL="$GCOV"
+  ])
+  AC_SUBST(COV_TOOL)
+  AC_SUBST(COV_TOOL_WRAPPER, "cov_tool_wrapper.sh")
+  LCOV="$LCOV --gcov-tool $(pwd)/$COV_TOOL_WRAPPER"
+
   AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([[--coverage]], [LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS --coverage"],
     [AC_MSG_ERROR("lcov testing requested but --coverage linker flag does not work")])
   AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([--coverage],[CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS --coverage"],