coverage: ignore lcov errors temporarily

problem: we seem to get spurious branch merge mismatch errors in CI, and
ensuring atomicity has not helped

solution: ignore all lcov errors with GCOV_ERROR_FILE=/dev/null

We can't ignore that specific class of errors with `--ignore-errors
mismatch` because our lcov version is too low, and increasing the
version is not an easy option in el8.

fixes #6078

Author: trws

Makefile.am

@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ CODE_COVERAGE_IGNORE_PATTERN = \
 	"*/common/libccan/*" \
 	"*/common/libmissing/*"
 
+# ignore lcov errors to avoid merge mismatch issue since lcov < 2 doesn't offer
+# an option to just ignore this error, we use this env var to ignore all, see:
+# https://github.com/flux-framework/flux-core/issues/6078
+export GCOV_ERROR_FILE=/dev/null
 CODE_COVERAGE_LCOV_OPTIONS =
 @CODE_COVERAGE_RULES@