diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 463f45fc4..c29a8e3cd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ include(ctest/CMakeLists.txt)
 # Since there is no directory-wide property for linker flags, we can't use
 # set_property for the link-time coverage flags.
 if(COVERAGE)
-    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage")
-    set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage")
+    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} --coverage")
+    set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} --coverage")
 endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(xmlserializer)