'show create' works even on views that are short of a base-table (this
throw a warning though, like you would expect). Unfortunately, this is
not what mysqldump uses; it creates stand-in tables and hence requests
'show fields' on the view which fails with missing base-tables.  The
--force option prevents the dump from stopping at this point; furthermore
this patch dumps a comment showing create for the offending view for
better diagnostics. This solution was confirmed by submitter as solving
their/clients' problem. Problem might become non-issue once mysqldump no
longer creates stand-in tables.