Add recursive option to as_link_whole #16734

Job	Run time
Arch Linux	19m 55s
CUDA (on Arch)	7m 3s
Arch / PyPy	20m 46s
Fedora	19m 30s
Gentoo	22m 37s
OpenSUSE	16m 14s
Ubuntu Rolling (gcc, g++)	19m 44s
Ubuntu Bionic	15m 8s
Ubuntu Rolling (--unity=on -Ddefault_library=static, --no-unittests, gcc, g++)	13m 36s
Ubuntu Rolling (-Ddefault_library=both, --no-unittests, gcc, g++)	13m 38s
Ubuntu Rolling (clang, clang++)	22m 8s
Ubuntu Rolling (--unity=on, --no-unittests, clang, clang++)	15m 16s
Ubuntu Rolling (--cross ubuntu-armhf.json --cross linux-mingw-w64-64bit.json, 0, gcc, g++)	13m 16s
Ubuntu Rolling (--cross ubuntu-armhf.json --cross linux-mingw-w64-64bit.json, --unity=on, gcc, g++)	13m 16s
	3h 52m 7s

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