gdb 7.2 installation error

[Ravish Nayak S. R.]

Hi,

I am trying to install gdb 7.2 on redhat5. it was successfull.. But if you run 
from the command prompt as gdb any object file(test) I am getting the following 
error..

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/test...I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Symbol 
format `elf64-x86-64' unknown.

Please observe the last line statement (i.e Reading symbols from 
/usr/bin/test...I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Symbol format `elf64-x86-64' 
unknown), because of this I could not able to debug any programs..

Thanks in advance