Merge #11680: [docs] Add instructions for lcov report generation

5ff01c236 [docs] Add instructions for lcov coverage report generation (James O'Beirne)

Pull request description:

  After rediscovering the `lcov` report generation recipe one too many times, it seemed prudent to write some doc.

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@ -182,6 +182,22 @@ $ valgrind --suppressions=contrib/valgrind.supp --leak-check=full \
$ valgrind -v --leak-check=full src/bitcoind -printtoconsole
```
**compiling for test coverage**
LCOV can be used to generate a test coverage report based upon `make check`
execution. LCOV must be installed on your system (e.g. the `lcov` package
on Debian/Ubuntu).
To enable LCOV report generation during test runs:
```shell
./configure --enable-lcov
make
make cov
# A coverage report will now be accessible at `./test_bitcoin.coverage/index.html`.
```
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