Alexander Kelett (aka lypanov on irc) made this ebuild that adds automake-1.6.1 to the collection of those installed, with WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6 etc. This is important because the KDE cvs head needs it as of a a day or two ago. I'm assigning it to you since you're the auto* guy. I'll test it myself too.
Created attachment 1033 [details] automake-1.6.1.ebuild - new ebuild
Created attachment 1034 [details] am-wrapper.pl (goes in files/, replaces current) Should perhaps be renamed am-wrapper.pl-1.6.1?
Added to CVS. Looks ok, but testing needed.