Index: trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeOptions.c
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--- trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeOptions.c	(revision 10270)
+++ trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeOptions.c	(revision 10441)
@@ -118,9 +118,6 @@
     }
 
-    // Get the recipes
-    if (!config->recipes && !pmConfigReadRecipes(config)) {
-        psError(PS_ERR_IO, false, "Unable to read recipes.\n");
-        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-    }
+    // we must have the recipes by this point
+    assert (config->recipes);
 
     // Now we can read the recipe