Add --jobs common option

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bpkg/common.cli b/bpkg/common.cli
index 646cb2b..ab3d8bd 100644
--- a/bpkg/common.cli
+++ b/bpkg/common.cli
@@ -81,6 +81,16 @@ namespace bpkg
        \li|Even more detailed information.||"
     }
 
+    size_t --jobs|-j
+    {
+      "<num>",
+      "Number of jobs to perform in parallel. If this option is not
+       specified or specified with the \c{0} value, then the number of
+       available hardware threads is used. This option is also propagated
+       when performing build system operations such as \cb{update},
+       \cb{test}, etc."
+    }
+
     // In the future we may also have --structured-result, similar to the
     // build system.
     //
diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-command.cxx b/bpkg/pkg-command.cxx
index c66c8da..1d53e03 100644
--- a/bpkg/pkg-command.cxx
+++ b/bpkg/pkg-command.cxx
@@ -44,7 +44,16 @@ namespace bpkg
       {
         bspec += ')';
         l4 ([&]{trace << "buildspec: " << bspec;});
-        run_b (o, verb_b::normal, cvars, vars, bspec);
+
+        run_b (o,
+               verb_b::normal,
+               (o.jobs_specified ()
+                ? strings ({"-j", to_string (o.jobs ())})
+                : strings ()),
+               cvars,
+               vars,
+               bspec);
+
         bspec.clear ();
       }
     };