diff --git a/src/frontend/inpcom.c b/src/frontend/inpcom.c
index 17b80e38b..61287dcc8 100644
--- a/src/frontend/inpcom.c
+++ b/src/frontend/inpcom.c
@@ -464,6 +464,9 @@ inp_readall(FILE *fp, char *dir_name, bool comfile, bool intfile)
     int call_depth = 0;
     struct line *cc;
 
+    num_libraries = 0;
+    inp_compat_mode = ngspice_compat_mode();
+
     cc = inp_read(fp, call_depth, dir_name, comfile, intfile);
 
     return cc;
@@ -493,11 +496,6 @@ inp_read(FILE *fp, int call_depth, char *dir_name, bool comfile, bool intfile)
 
     bool found_end = FALSE, shell_eol_continuation = FALSE;
 
-    if (call_depth == 0) {
-        num_libraries       = 0;
-        inp_compat_mode = ngspice_compat_mode();
-    }
-
     /* First read in all lines & put them in the struct cc */
     for (;;) {
         /* derive lines from circarray */