Alpar had the key, focus can be set in the window class. But it is not enough, the focused widget has to be activated, as well! Was a hard task to find out... By the way, two compilation warnings are removed.
13 optarg=`expr "x$option" : 'x[^=]*=\(.*\)'`
32 -h, --help display this help and exit
33 --amver=VERSION use VERSION version of automake
34 --acver=VERSION use VERSION version of autoconf
37 $0 --amver=1.8 --acver=2.59
44 $0: unrecognized option: $option
45 Try \`$0 --help' for more information.
60 automake=automake-$amver
61 aclocal=aclocal-$amver
66 autoconf=autoconf-$acver
67 autoheader=autoheader-$acver
72 && libtoolize --force --copy \
74 && $automake --add-missing --copy --gnu \