diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6016f93..446e8a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ If you've ever thought about rewriting GNU make from scratch, the idea of
 doing it in 250 lines of shell script probably didn't occur to you.  redo is
 so simple that it's actually possible.  For testing, I actually wrote an
 even more minimal version,which always rebuilds everything instead of
-checking dependencies, in 99 lines of shell (less than 2 kbytes).
+checking dependencies, in 100 lines of shell (less than 2 kbytes).
 
 The design is simply that good.
 
diff --git a/minimal/do b/minimal/do
index 0f543be..a25b72d 100755
--- a/minimal/do
+++ b/minimal/do
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ if [ -z "$DO_BUILT" ]; then
 	for d in redo redo-ifchange; do
 		ln -s "$REDO" "$DO_PATH/$d";
 	done
+	[ -e /bin/true ] && TRUE=/bin/true || TRUE=/usr/bin/true
 	for d in redo-ifcreate redo-stamp redo-always; do 
-		ln -s /bin/true "$DO_PATH/$d";
+		ln -s $TRUE "$DO_PATH/$d";
 	done
 fi