A problem exists in that if a library is already installed on the system, it may be used by accident, either at build time, or at install time. This masks serious build/install ordering issues.
Yes.
Automake could unmask these issues by unlinking every file it is about to install before installing them. Unfortunately, this would keep the user from meaningfully specifying `install' options to, for example, make backup copies. As you say, using distcheck is a robust way to flush out these issues.
This won't work reliably because it is older (i.e. different shared library version) libraries which cause the problem. The older shared libraries should not be unlinked. The existing libraries may be discovered in a different directory than the new libraries are being intalled in.
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