Merge #700: Allow overriding default flags

ca739cba23 Compile with optimization flag -O2 by default instead of -O3 (Jonas Nick)
83fb1bcef4 Remove -O2 from default CFLAGS because this would override the -O3 flag (see AC_PROG_CC in the Autoconf manual) (Jonas Nick)
ecba8138ec Append instead of Prepend user-CFLAGS to default CFLAGS allowing the user to override default variables (Jonas Nick)
613c34cd86 Remove test in configure.ac because it doesn't have an effect (Jonas Nick)

Pull request description:

  Right now, it's not easy to reduce the optimization level with `CFLAGS` because `configure` overwrites any optimization flag with `-O3`. The [automake documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Flag-Variables-Ordering.html) states that:

   > The reason ‘$(CPPFLAGS)’ appears after ‘$(AM_CPPFLAGS)’ or ‘$(mumble_CPPFLAGS)’ in the compile command is that users should always have the last say.

  and also that it's incorrect to redefine CFLAGS in the first place

  > You should never redefine a user variable such as CPPFLAGS in Makefile.am. [...] You should not add options to these user variables within configure either, for the same reason

  With this PR `CFLAGS` is still redefined, but user-provided flags appear after the default `CFLAGS` which means that they override the default flags (at least in clang and gcc). Otherwise, the default configuration is not changed. This also means that if CFLAGS are defined by the user, then -g is not added (which does not seem to make much sense). In order to keep the `-O3` despite the reordering we need to explicitly tell autoconf to not append `-O2` by setting the default to `-g` with `: ${CFLAGS="-g"}` as per [the manual](https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/autoconf.html#C-Compiler) (EDIT: link fix).

ACKs for top commit:
  real-or-random:
    ACK ca739cba23
  theuni:
    ACK ca739cba23.
  elichai:
    ACK ca739cba23

Tree-SHA512: be92589faa461d245203385d44b489c7d6917b0c68472b8d7576806c0250cf5ff61d5c99ce04eebb8ff5279b9987185d4e5d2da979683fb1c489fdf3e5b59630

configure.ac

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ AH_TOP([#ifndef LIBSECP256K1_CONFIG_H])
 AH_TOP([#define LIBSECP256K1_CONFIG_H])
 AH_BOTTOM([#endif /*LIBSECP256K1_CONFIG_H*/])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
+
+# Set -g if CFLAGS are not already set, which matches the default autoconf
+# behavior (see PROG_CC in the Autoconf manual) with the exception that we don't
+# set -O2 here because we set it in any case (see further down).
+: ${CFLAGS="-g"}
 LT_INIT
 
 dnl make the compilation flags quiet unless V=1 is used
@@ -19,10 +24,6 @@ AC_PATH_TOOL(RANLIB, ranlib)
 AC_PATH_TOOL(STRIP, strip)
 AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD
 
-if test "x$CFLAGS" = "x"; then
-  CFLAGS="-g"
-fi
-
 AM_PROG_CC_C_O
 
 AC_PROG_CC_C89
@@ -63,11 +64,11 @@ case $host_os in
    ;;
 esac
 
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -W"
+CFLAGS="-W $CFLAGS"
 
 warn_CFLAGS="-std=c89 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wcast-align -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-function -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings"
 saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $warn_CFLAGS"
+CFLAGS="$warn_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([if ${CC} supports ${warn_CFLAGS}])
 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[char foo;]])],
     [ AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) ],
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[char foo;]])],
     ])
 
 saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fvisibility=hidden"
+CFLAGS="-fvisibility=hidden $CFLAGS"
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([if ${CC} supports -fvisibility=hidden])
 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[char foo;]])],
     [ AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) ],
@@ -175,10 +176,10 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([VALGRIND_ENABLED],[test "$enable_valgrind" = "yes"])
 
 if test x"$enable_coverage" = x"yes"; then
     AC_DEFINE(COVERAGE, 1, [Define this symbol to compile out all VERIFY code])
-    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O0 --coverage"
-    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS --coverage"
+    CFLAGS="-O0 --coverage $CFLAGS"
+    LDFLAGS="--coverage $LDFLAGS"
 else
-    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O3"
+    CFLAGS="-O2 $CFLAGS"
 fi
 
 if test x"$use_ecmult_static_precomputation" != x"no"; then
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ if test x"$use_ecmult_static_precomputation" != x"no"; then
 
   warn_CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="-Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-function"
   saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $warn_CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD"
+  CFLAGS="$warn_CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD $CFLAGS"
   AC_MSG_CHECKING([if native ${CC_FOR_BUILD} supports ${warn_CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD}])
   AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[char foo;]])],
       [ AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) ],