Improve MIN_VERSION_base fall-back

Guess the base library version based on `__GLASGOW_HASKELL__`
when compiling without Cabal.

Author: treeowl

include/containers.h

@@ -51,11 +51,30 @@
 /*
  * We use cabal-generated MIN_VERSION_base to adapt to changes of base.
  * Nevertheless, as a convenience, we also allow compiling without cabal by
- * defining trivial MIN_VERSION_base if needed.
+ * defining an approximate MIN_VERSION_base if needed. The alternative version
+ * guesses the version of base using the version of GHC. This is usually
+ * sufficiently accurate. However, it completely ignores minor version numbers,
+ * and it makes the assumption that a pre-release version of GHC will ship with
+ * base libraries with the same version numbers as the final release. This
+ * assumption is violated in certain stages of GHC development, but in practice
+ * this should very rarely matter, and will not affect any released version.
  */
 #ifndef MIN_VERSION_base
-#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) 0
+#if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 709
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=8)))
+#elif __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 707
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=7)))
+#elif __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 705
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=6)))
+#elif __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 703
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=5)))
+#elif __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 701
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=4)))
+#elif __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 700
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (((major1)<4)||(((major1) == 4)&&((major2)<=3)))
+#else
+#define MIN_VERSION_base(major1,major2,minor) (0)
 #endif
+#endif // MIN_VERSION_base was not defined
 
-
-#endif
+#endif // This file was already included