Precautions for building on devices with less than 1GB RAM

Trying to install drive from source on devices with low memory (such as Raspberry Pi, PogoPlug etc.) might throw an error like the following

go get -u github.com/odeke-em/drive/cmd/drive
go build github.com/odeke-em/google-api-go-client/drive/v2: /usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_arm/5g: signal: killed
go build golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: /usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_arm/5g: signal: killed

On devices with low memory, it is highly recommended to use a swap-partition/file.

If, for whatever reason, you do not want to use swap but still need to build drive from source (there are now binaries for armv6l) you can create a temporary swap file, build drive and delete the swap file afterwards.

as root, create a 1GB swap file

fallocate -l 1G /swap
mkswap /swap
chmod 600 /swap
swapon /swap

get and build drive as usual

go get -u github.com/odeke-em/drive/cmd/drive

again, as root, disable swap and remove the file

swapoff /swap
rm /swap