[From emacs-devel]
>>> I believe this should be customizable with something like
>>> 
>>>  (setopt display-buffer-alist
>>>   '(("\\*Compile-Log\\*" nil (select-window . t))))
>>
>> Thank you for the advice, but I tried this and it didn't work.
>> *Compile-log* buffer isn't selected.
>
> This feature was discussed in bug#33258 and bug#46034,
> but not yet implemented.  It should be easy to implement
> exactly the same way as 'windmove-display-in-direction'
> selects the old or new window in 'post-command-hook'.
> Ok, I will post a patch to bug-gnu-emacs.

Here is the patch that allows using (select-window . t) in display-buffer-alist
to select the displayed window, and (select-window . nil) to deselect windows
selected by such functions as pop-to-buffer: